{"id":580811,"date":"2010-05-26T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/05\/26\/mahindra-reva-announce-partnership-leading-future-electric-vehi\/"},"modified":"2010-05-26T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:33:00","slug":"mahindra-reva-announce-partnership-leading-future-electric-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/580811","title":{"rendered":"Mahindra, Reva announce partnership leading future electric vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/hirings-firings\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hirings\/Firings\/Layoffs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/earnings-financials\/\" rel=\"tag\">Earnings\/Financials<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/india\/\" rel=\"tag\">India<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/electric\/\" rel=\"tag\">Electric<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\" \" border=\" \" vspace=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/green.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/05\/mahindra-reva-handshake-630.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turns out, that so-called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/05\/report-mahindra-looking-to-buy-stake-in-reva\/\">person with direct knowledge<\/a>&#8221; was right. Mahindra and Reva have announced a collaboration to form a new company called Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicle Company that will see Reva&#8217;s electric powertrain technology put into Mahindra &amp; Mahindra vehicles. Mahindra will also take a 55.2-percent equity stake in Reva Electric Car Company and has so far invested about $10 million in the new company. New corporate details are available after the jump, but what we&#8217;re really wondering is what this might mean for vehicles like <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/31\/reva-explains-rescheduling-of-pilot-production-fpr-nxr-electric\/\">the NXR electric car<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, a lot of Mahindra vehicles &#8211; electric three-wheelers like the Bijlee and the Maxximo mini-truck, and &#8220;other M&amp;M vehicles&#8221; &#8211; could get the electric powertrain package. As for the NXR (and the even more far away <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2009\/09\/16\/frankfurt-2009-reva-nxg-looks-ready-to-stomp-nxr-is-ready-for\/\">NXG<\/a>), today&#8217;s announcement says, &#8220;Mahindra REVA will now have access to Mahindra&#8217;s vehicle development technology and distribution network, significantly enhancing its ability to launch a state-of-the-art electric vehicle for global markets.&#8221; So, there&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, we&#8217;re not sure what this announcement means for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/09\/25\/officially-official-reva-to-help-gm-india-develop-evs\/\">previous deal between Reva and General Motors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: Mahindra]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/05\/26\/mahindra-reva-announce-partnership-leading-future-electric-vehi\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Mahindra, Reva announce partnership leading future electric vehicles<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/05\/26\/mahindra-reva-announce-partnership-leading-future-electric-vehi\/\">Mahindra, Reva announce partnership leading future electric vehicles<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 26 May 2010 17:33:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/05\/26\/mahindra-reva-announce-partnership-leading-future-electric-vehi\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/forward\/19492621\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/05\/26\/mahindra-reva-announce-partnership-leading-future-electric-vehi\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Hirings\/Firings\/Layoffs, Earnings\/Financials, India, Electric Turns out, that so-called &#8220;person with direct knowledge&#8221; was right. Mahindra and Reva have announced a collaboration to form a new company called Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicle Company that will see Reva&#8217;s electric powertrain technology put into Mahindra &amp; Mahindra vehicles. Mahindra will also take a 55.2-percent equity stake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}