The REVA NXR

Reva, the company with the largest deployed fleet of electric vehicles in the world, have unveiled their NXR and NXG models. The acronyms stand for ‘Next Reva’ and ‘Next Generation’. This is something some of us have had to keep quiet about for some time. In the words of an admin at the G-Wiz owners club:

The new logo of the REVA G-Wiz owners club

I saw the prototype of this car when I was in Bangalore in March. I’ve had to keep quiet about it ever since.

The Reva design team have been guided by Dilip Chhabria, who designed the Aston Martin Vanquish. It really looks good in the flesh. Its a nicely styled car which really does have a ‘wow’ impact about it. The front three-quarters view they’ve released here does not do the car justice - there are lots of lovely details to it and it really does look good.

At the Frankfurt Motor Show on September 16th, more details and all pricing will be revealed. So far, RECC has given us a taste of what’s to come. Their REVive system, for example, is a telematically enabled spare battery. It means that a text message or a call to the international service centre will unlock an extra chunk of range. This is an interesting innovation, especially considering that the range stands at 160km anyway.

Performance is going to be in focus at the motor show as journalists get to test the vehicle. We have no figures on torque but top speed is supposed to be 104km per hour. Now, add this to the fact that the car is a car (M1 class, not quadracycle) and you get a new degree of motorway capability. It will fall under NCAP crash test regulations.

In Dublin terms, that new middle lane of the M50 will open up to the electric car. But when exactly? We’ll have to wait another two weeks before we get the export production dates but it will be in 2010. Full information will be on www.revaglobal.com when it’s launched on the 16th.

Until then, we can only tantalise you with pictures. Keep an eye out for more because the NXR image doesn’t seem to do the styling justice. The NXG model looks very interesting. Iconic from the front, weird from the side and promising the world in terms of performance. This is something we know very little about but the concept sports car will be on show at Frankfurt. Look forward to seeing you all there.