Driving in Mumbai traffic is miserable. Nothing moves; everything on the road honks and half the vehicles on the road are actively trying to occupy the same bit of tarmac as you. The Curvv EV doesn’t make this chaos disappear, but it does make it tolerable. It glides away from lights in silence, zips through gaps without fuss, and does it all without reminding you that you’re basically wasting hours of your life. That’s not nothing. The steering is feather-light in town, which is exactly what you want when you’re threading it into a parking spot. The regenerative braking is sorted correctly. You can almost drive it with one pedal, which in stop–start traffic is worth its weight in gold. It makes crawling bearable, which is about as high a compliment as I can give an urban EV.
Of course, it’s not flawless. The air conditioning sometimes thinks it knows better than you. One minute it’s fine, the next it’s steaming up the windscreen like you’re in a cheap romance film. And the cabin? It’s functional, but there’s no escaping that it feels borrowed from other Tata models. It’s not offensive, but nor is it premium. You know exactly where the accountants stepped in.
The good news is that you never think about range. Plug it in at home, wake up to a full battery, and you’re sorted for the week. This is what EV ownership should feel like. The ride is firm, but not crashy, and it actually deals with Mumbai’s lunar-surface roads without rattling itself to bits. Even with the coupe roofline nibbling away at practicality, the fundamentals are right.
So to sum it up, on the highway, the Curvv EV can go the distance. In the city, it proves its worth in a much more important way. It makes the commute less of a chore. It’s not perfect, but then neither is the city you’re driving it in.
