are true. In an unveiling in India this past week, the company took the wraps off of two lithium-ion battery-powered EV prototypes based on the Ace work truck and the Indica sedan (pictured). As we heard earlier this year, the Indica EV will first be sold in the Norweigian market next year because the Scandanavian country “has the necessary infrastructure in place to run electric cars which India lacks,” as Tata Motors President Ravi Kant put it. Indians will get their own chance to buy the car in about 24 months. According to the Tata Motors has confirmed that the rumors of an all-electric Tata Ace and the all-electric Tata IndicaBusiness-Standard, the all-electric Indica has two battery packs which can charge in eight hour and go around 110-120 miles on a charge.

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I never thought I’d be typing in the words “nano factory siege” into Google, but now I have. On the drive home last night, I heard a staticky report on BBC Radio about some sort of siege, starting today, at the plant that is supposed produce the world’s smallest car. Since I didn’t catch the whole story on the radio, I thought I’d see the the Internets can tell me. In short, it’s a tricky situation, but the BBC has the details.

Apparently, because Tata Motors is one of the biggest companies in India, the opposition party in West Bengal - where the plant is located - is protesting the a move by the governing communist party. The point of contention is (I think) the thousand acres that the state seized for the factory’s expansion. Tata chief Ratan Tata is threatening to move the production facility to another state if things don’t calm down - and other states are saying they’re more than happy to welcome him. We’ll keep an eye on this, as the Nano promises to be a game-shifting vehicle wherever it is built.

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