We Will Pick Up 1-2 More Pillars For Comet EV - MG Motor India | V3Cars

13 April 2023
By Mahesh Yadav
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While speaking with V3Cars, Gaurav Gupta, chief commercial officer of MG Motor India, said that the “Comet EV will pick up one or two more pillars of the CASE” values for MG vehicles. This is in addition to the ‘Electric’ pillar, which is an obvious one for the Comet EV.

MG Motor recently announced a collaboration with online gamer MortaL (Naman Mathur). The statement was in response to a question from V3Cars about the attributes the Comet EV will follow. MG’s vehicles attempt to follow as many attributes as possible out of the brand’s CASE value system. Here CASE is an acronym for:

Connected
Autonomous
Shared
Electric

Since the Comet is an electric car, it obviously follows the E pillar. If MG announce 1-2 more pillars for the Comet, then we should expect it to get connected car features and some degree of vehicle shareability. Some of the autonomous driving capabilities currently seem a little out of reach and relevance for the Comet as it’s going to become the most affordable car in MG’s portfolio.

Moreover, being a city-centric vehicle, it will not be able to benefit greatly from the semi-autonomous driving features like adaptive cruise control and lane centring feature. These are valuable features for cars, which frequently drive on the highways and expressways.

Among other cars, here are the pillars they follow*:

Astor - CASe
Hector/Hector Plus - CASe
ZS EV - CaSE
Gloster CASe

*Letters of CASE mentioned in upper case are applicable for the particular car mentioned above.

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MG Comet EV India Launch Timeline

MG Motor India are likely to launch the new Comet EV in the first week of May 2023. The carmaker has already sent the first drive invite for the Comet EV, which will take place on 21st and 22nd April. We expect MG to reveal the details of the Comet EV in the coming days.

MG Comet EV Expected Powertrain Details

MG are yet to reveal the powertrain details of the Comet EV. However, the Comet EV is sold as the Wuling Air EV in the Chinese market and the latter’s powertrain details are available in the public domain. The Wuling Air EV offers 2 battery pack options — 17.3kWh and 26.7kWh – in international markets. The 17.3kWh battery pack offers a claimed range of up to 200km on a single charge, while the 26.7kWh battery pack offers a range of 300km. Both variants come with a 40PS electric motor.

Also Read: MG Comet EV Revealed In India

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