Tata Motors Limited is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturing company, headquartered in Mumbai, India, which is part of the Tata Group. The company produces passenger cars, trucks, vans, coaches, buses.
Formerly known as Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company (TELCO), the company was founded in 1945 as a manufacturer of locomotives. The company manufactured its first commercial vehicle in 1954 in a collaboration with Daimler-Benz AG, which ended in 1969. Tata Motors entered the passenger vehicle market in 1988 with the launch of the TataMobile followed by the Tata Sierra in 1991, becoming the first Indian manufacturer to achieve the capability of developing a competitive indigenous automobile. In 1998, Tata launched the first fully indigenous Indian passenger car, the Indica, and in 2008 launched the Tata Nano. Tata Motors acquired the South Korean truck manufacturer Daewoo Commercial Vehicles Company in 2004. Tata Motors has been the parent company of Jaguar Land Rover since the company established it for the acquisition of Jaguar Cars and Land Rover from Ford in 2008.
Tata Motors’ principal subsidiaries include British premium car maker Jaguar Land Rover (the maker of Jaguar and Land Rover cars) and the South Korean commercial vehicle manufacturer Tata Daewoo. Tata Motors has a construction-equipment manufacturing joint venture with Hitachi (Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery), and a joint venture with Stellantis which manufactures automotive components and Fiat Chrysler and Tata branded vehicles. On 12 October 2021, private equity firm TPG invested $1 billion in Tata Motors’ electric vehicle subsidiary.
Tata Motors has auto manufacturing and vehicle plants in Jamshedpur, Pantnagar, Lucknow, Sanand, Dharwad, and Pune in India, as well as in Argentina, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Thailand. It has research and development centres in Pune, Jamshedpur, Lucknow, Dharwad, India and South Korea, the United Kingdom, and Spain. Tata Motors is listed on the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange), where it is a constituent of the BSE SENSEX index, the National Stock Exchange of India, and the New York Stock Exchange. The company is ranked 265th on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s biggest corporations as of 2019.
On 17 January 2017, Natarajan Chandrasekaran was appointed chairman of the company Tata Group. Tata Motors increased its UV market share to over 8% in FY2019.
“Tata Motors History
Tata entered the commercial vehicle sector in 1945 after forming a joint venture with Daimler-Benz of Germany. After years of dominating the commercial vehicle market in India, Tata Motors entered the passenger vehicle market in 1991 by launching the Tata Sierra, a multi utility vehicle. Tata subsequently launched the Tata Estate (1992; a station wagon design based on the earlier ‘TataMobile’ (1989), a light commercial vehicle), the Tata Sumo (1994; LCV) and the Tata Safari (1998; India’s first sports utility vehicle).
Tata launched the Indica in 1998, the first fully indigenous Indian passenger car. Although initially criticized by auto-analysts, its excellent fuel economy, powerful engine and an aggressive marketing strategy made it one of the best selling cars in the history of the Indian automobile industry. A newer version of the car, named Indica V2, was a major improvement over the previous version and quickly became a mass-favourite. Tata Motors also successfully exported large quantities of the car to South Africa. The success of Indica played a key role in the growth of Tata Motors.
In 2004 Tata Motors acquired Daewoo’s South Korea-based truck manufacturing unit, Daewoo Commercial Vehicles Company, later renamed Tata Daewoo.
On 27 September 2004, Tata Motors rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to mark the listing of Tata Motors.
In 2005, Tata Motors acquired a 21% controlling stake in the Spanish bus and coach manufacturer Hispano Carrocera. Tata Motors continued its market area expansion through the introduction of new products such as buses (Starbus & Globus, jointly developed with subsidiary Hispano Carrocera) and trucks (Novus, jointly developed with subsidiary Tata Daewoo).
In 2006, Tata formed a joint venture with the Brazil-based Marcopolo, Tata Marcopolo Bus, to manufacture fully built buses and coaches.
In 2008, Tata Motors acquired the British car maker Jaguar Land Rover, manufacturer of the Jaguar, Land Rover and Daimler luxury car brands, from Ford Motor Company.
In May 2009 Tata unveiled the Tata World Truck range jointly developed with Tata Daewoo; the range went in sale in South Korea, South Africa, the SAARC countries and the Middle-East at the end of 2009.
Tata acquired full ownership of Hispano Carrocera in 2009.
In 2009, its Lucknow plant was awarded the “Best of all” Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award.
In 2010, Tata Motors acquired an 80% stake in the Italian design and engineering company Trilix for €1.85 million. The acquisition formed part of the company’s plan to enhance its styling and design capabilities.
In 2012, Tata Motors announced it would invest around 
6 billion in the development of Futuristic Infantry Combat Vehicles in collaboration with DRDO.
In 2013, Tata Motors announced it will sell in India, the first vehicle in the world to run on compressed air (engines designed by the French company MDI) and dubbed “Mini CAT”.
On 26 January 2014, the Managing Director Karl Slym was found dead. He fell from the 22nd floor to the 4th floor of the Shangri-La Hotel in Bangkok where he was to attend a meeting of Tata Motors Thailand.”
Commercial vehicles
- Tata Ace
- Tata Ace Zip
- Tata Ace EV
- Tata Super Ace
- Tata Intra
- Tata Intra V10
- Tata Intra V20
- Tata Intra V30
- Tata Intra V50
- Tata Xenon XT
- Tata Yodha
- Tata Ace Mega
- Tata Iris
- Tata TL/Telcoline/207 Pick-up truck
- Tata 407 Ex and Ex2
- Tata 709 Ex
- Tata 807 (Steel cabin chassis, cowl chassis, medium bus chassis, steel cabin + steel body chassis)
- Tata 809 Ex and Ex2
- Tata 909 Ex and Ex2
- Tata 1210 SE and SFC (Semi Forward)
- Tata 1210 LP (Long Plate)
- Tata 1109 (Intermediate truck/ LCV bus)
- Tata 1512c (Medium bus chassis)
- Tata 1515c/1615 (Medium bus chassis)
- Tata 1612c/1616c/1618c (Heavy bus chassis)
- Tata 1618 (Semilow-floor bus chassis)
- Tata 1623 (Rear-engined low-floor bus chassis)
- Tata 1518C (Medium truck) 10 ton
- Tata 1613/1615c (Medium truck)
- Tata 1616/1618c (Heavy duty truck)
- Tata 2515c/2516c/2518c (Heavy duty 10-wheeler truck)
- Tata Starbus (Branded buses for city, intercity, school bus, and standard passenger transportation)
- Tata Divo (Hispano Divo)
- Tata CityRide (12- to 20-seater buses for intracity use)
- Tata 3015 (Heavy truck)
- Tata 3118 (Heavy truck) (8×2)
- Tata 3516 (Heavy truck)
- Tata 4018 (Heavy truck)
- Tata 4923 (Ultraheavy truck) (6×4)
- Tata Novus
- Tata Prima
- Tata SIGNA series
- Tata Ultra series (ICV Segment)
- Tata Winger – (Maxivan)
Electric vehicles
Tata Motors has unveiled electric versions of the Tata Indica passenger car powered by TM4 electric motors and inverters, as well as the Tata Ace commercial vehicle, both of which run on lithium batteries which launched in 2022.
In 2008 Tata Motors’ UK subsidiary, Tata Motors European Technical Centre, bought a 50.3% holding in electric vehicle technology firm Miljøbil Grenland/Innovasjon of Norway for US$1.93 million, and planned to launch the electric Indica hatchback in Europe the following year.[52][53][54] In September 2010, Tata Motors presented four CNG–Electric Hybrid low-floored Starbuses to the Delhi Transport Corporation, to be used during the 2010 Commonwealth Games. These were the first environmentally friendly buses to be used for public transportation in India.
In December 2019, Tata Motors unveiled the Nexon EV, an SUV with a 30.2KWh lithium-ion battery and a consistent range of 312 km on a single charge. It is also equipped with fast charging technology, which can charge the vehicle from 0% – 80% in 60 minutes. With 525 units of Nexon EV sold in India last month, Tata Nexon EV was the best-selling electric car in the month of April 2021 in India.
Tata Passenger Electric Mobility is a subsidiary which produces electric cars under the brand name Tata Motors.
List of Tata electric vehicles:
Electric Vehicle Concepts
- Tata Curvv
- Tata Avinya
- Tata evision
Discontinued Models
- Tata Telcoline (1988–2010)
- Tata Sierra (1991–2003)
- Tata Estate (1992–2000)
- Tata Sumo (1994–2019)
- Tata Indica (1998–2015)
- Tata Spacio (2000-2011)
- Tata Indigo (2002–2015)
- Tata Indigo Marina (2006–2009)
- Tata Xenon (2007–2018)
- Tata Sumo Grande (2008–2016)
- Tata Vista (2008–2015)
- Tata Nano (2008–2018)
- Tata Manza (2009–2016)
- Tata Venture (2010–2017)
- Tata Aria (2010–2017)
- Tata Zest (2014–2020)
- Tata Bolt (2014–2019)
- Tata Hexa (2017–2020)
*Information from Forbes.com and Wikipedia.org
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