MG Drops India's First PHEV as EV Startups Cash In, But Ethanol Uproar Looms

JSW MG Motor just dropped India's first plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, and it's priced to disrupt. The Hector Tomahawk PHEV starts at ₹25.69 lakh — or ₹21.79 lakh with Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) at ₹3.20 per km. It boasts a combined range of over 1,100 km on a single tank, pairing a 1.5L Atkinson cycle engine with a 20.5 kWh battery. The pure EV variant starts even lower at ₹19.49 lakh (₹13.99 lakh via BaaS), packing a 69.2 kWh battery with a **517 km MIDC...