Mahindra has taken off the covers from its production ready prototype of electric vehicle, the Reva NXR. The new REVA NRX look much more stylish than the older REVA.

Mahindra has not made much change to the original REVA and has made it just more appealing. Mahindra has also used many of its own parts in order to cut down production cost. The NXR will be offered with three battery option- small, medium and large. There will be two kind of batteries which will be used in it, lithium ion and lead acid, but Mahindra will focus more on Lithium ion variants. The REVA NXR gets 29KW (39.4BHP) electric motor and the car can attain a top speed of 86kph.

Dilip Chabaria’s DC design has revealed the India’s own made first sports car concept at the Auto Expo 2012. Named Avanti, It is the DC Design’s first ever attempt to go for full production run of a car being designed by them. The Avanti was designed at the DC Design workshop at pune.

The Avanti will be powered by Ford EcoBoost 2.0-litre 4-cyclinder VVT engine which delivers power output of 240BHP at 5500rpm and Torque of 3500rpm. The Euro-V compliant engine will be outsourced and will be used in Avanti with minor tweaks. The car will be available in both six-speed manual transmission as well as six-speed automatic option.

DC design is planning to kickoff production from 300 units in 2013, The booking of Avanti will start from Feb 2012 while the deliveries are expected to be around mid 2013. The Avanti will be priced around Rs.30 lakh (Ex-showroom).