Sunday Drive by Hormazd Sorabjee: Hits and misses, ups and downs

The long-awaited Mahindra XUV400 is the first electric SUV from Mahindra after years of talking electric, and is finally the walk of the company’s EV talk. Except that it’s no longer a walk but a sprint to catch up with Tata Motors, which has sped far ahead in the EV race. The XUV400 goes squarely up against the Nexon EV, the bestselling EV in the market today, but can Mahindra’s late-to-the-party EV thwart arch-rival Tata Motors’ almost unopposed dream run?