Starbus EV

This is a fleet vehicle first and a passenger bus second, and it reads that way: a 250 kWh pack and roughly 200 km of range per charge is built around depot-to-route-to-depot city duty cycles, not range anxiety headlines. The 245 kW Integrated Motor Generator gives it enough shove to keep up with city traffic despite the mass a 19.5-tonne GVW bus carries, and regenerative braking helps claw some of that back on stop-start routes.

A 2-3 hour full charge is realistic for overnight depot charging but rules out fast midday top-ups between shifts, which is the real operational constraint for transit operators running these back-to-back. Air suspension front and disc/drum brakes front-to-rear are sensible choices for a low-floor city bus, and the low-entry layout with a dedicated wheelchair bay on the AC variant is a genuine accessibility plus, not just a spec-sheet checkbox.

At roughly Rs 2.20 crore ex-showroom, this is squarely a state transit corporation or large private fleet purchase, not a small operator's vehicle — the FAME/PM e-bus subsidy schemes that many Indian cities use to fund these purchases matter more to the real-world price than the sticker figure does. Worth noting the source data here is thinner than for passenger EVs: bus aggregator listings for this model carry some inconsistent numbers (mixed diesel/EV template fields), so treat torque and some feature details as provisional until Tata publishes a clean spec sheet.