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In this video, we explore the Tata Harrier EV in detail, covering key updates, background details, and expert insights. Discover everything from its dual-motor AWD performance, real-world range, advanced features like the 14.5" touchscreen, ADAS technology, and unique off-road capabilities, to its modern design and premium interiors. Whether you’re following this for the first time or looking for the latest analysis, this breakdown has you covered. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more updates.
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00:00Hi guys and welcome to Drive Spark, I'm Promeet and what we are driving today is another EV from
00:11Tata Motors and this is the Harrier.EV. Now we are going to drive this car and tell you
00:16everything you need to know about this SUV. So let's quickly start this video.
00:24So let's start talking about the front end of the vehicle. Now the very first thing you'll see
00:28are these DRLs. Now this also gets a connected DRL, this entire thing is the DRL and these are
00:34the dynamic indicators which obviously convert into the dynamic indicator. So the indicator is
00:39only this much, the DRL will continue to glow over here. This is the front grille that's a body
00:44coloured grille where in the normal Harrier you have this opening because you have an engine so this
00:48needs air to cool down but over here you can see you have a slit and a vertical kind of a grille over
00:54here that pushes in somewhat of air. Lighting setup on the Harrier EV is completely an LED setup. You
01:00have a bifunctional LED projector and then you have this cornering lamp and fog lamps as well.
01:05You also have vents over here that channel air through it cooling the brakes and the tyres and
01:10also makes the car a little more aerodynamic. There you have the front radar for the ADAS that
01:15works in sync with the camera over there for your level 2 ADAS features. And now let's quickly go
01:21on to the side and tell you more about that. So now this is the side profile of the vehicle. Now the
01:30side profile of the vehicle if you see it from the regular ICE variant it is not much of a difference.
01:35Well however you get the EV badging right over here and these are 19 inch aero wheels. The tyre
01:41section is a 245 55 R19 and these are electric specific tyres so they have a little less rolling
01:49noise when you are driving the car and that is important because since it does not have an
01:53engine the tyre noise could be a problem. Well I will explain that more when I'm driving the car to
01:58you. It's got this blacked out ORVM with integrated indicator and you can see a camera over here.
02:02So basically this gets a 360 degree camera feature and you also have this piano black roof
02:08rail. There is no chrome on the car whatsoever and the body lines and creases run all the way from the
02:14front all the way to the taillight over here. Now you can see it gets a wrapped around taillight
02:18and if you can just move to the back the very first thing you will notice are these wrapped
02:21around taillights and apart from that you can see you get this QWD dual motor so this
02:26is a dual motor setup. Obviously you have a rear wheel drive setup as well but this variant that
02:31we have currently is the dual motor setup. Now let's move to the back and over here you can see
02:36you get this connected LED taillight right over here you get a wiper with the washer you get a spoiler
02:40a high stop mount light defoggers. So you have the Harrier.EV badging right over here that is present
02:46in black again a good thing it is not in chrome. Well there are a couple of ways that you can open
02:51the boot you can open it from the request sensor you can open it from the key of the vehicle you
02:54can open it from a dedicated button that's given on the dashboard. So this is the key of the vehicle
03:00as you can see over here you have a couple of buttons right away you have a lock button unlock
03:04button that's to operate the light that's to open the boot you have a hold button over here that's a
03:09power button to switch on the car and switch off the car that's your automatic parking button and these
03:13two buttons are to move the car front and back so just in case if there is something parked or if
03:17there is some obstruction that you can't get in and out of the car so you can just hold this button
03:21the car will automatically move ahead and back without the driver. So this feature was seen on
03:26the BMW cars but now you have it on the Tata Harrier EV as well and let's open the boot now so as I
03:31mentioned there are a couple of options that you can open the boot with.
03:34So that is another option where that's a hands-free boot opening and you have a 502 liters of boot space
03:44well talking about boot space you also get a frunk in the front where in the rear wheel drive variant
03:50you have a 67 liters of frunk space but in the all-wheel drive variant since there's a motor at the
03:55front you will get around 35 liters of frunk space which is pretty decent I say and it's an electronic boot
04:02so just press this and the boot will close automatically. So this basically sums up the
04:08rear section before going off let me tell you that there is a camera right over there that is basically
04:13for your electric IRVM and the electric IRVM obviously works in sync with that that also acts
04:19as a rear dash cam. So now let's more on the inside and I'll tell you more about that.
04:23So now let's sit at the rear of the car now there is a lot of space where you can see over here first
04:34of all you get a manual sunshade right over here you get a huge panoramic sunroof let me just open
04:39this open the shade so that is how the shade opens and all the way up to the back now the shade is very
04:44nice it's not translucent it is completely opaque so sunlight will not enter the cabin and as you can
04:50see that the sunroof is all the way to the back now this series are just adjusted according to my
04:54height my height is 6'1 and you can see and I have a pretty decent amount of knee room over here leg
04:58room could have been slightly better under thigh support could have been slightly better the seats
05:03are comfortable I will give that they can't recline back but you have one thing that is really nice
05:07and those are these adjustable headrest that the winglets so basically if you are falling asleep well
05:13your head will not roll off and that's a really good feature well also you can see you get an armrest
05:18with two cup holders you can close this if you are three people sitting well the third person does
05:23not get a headrest over here well you have boss mode where you can control the front seat from here
05:28without disturbing the passenger so this is the rear section you have some storage space over here you
05:34have two type c chargings over here and these are 65 watt fast charging type c ports so this sums up
05:40the rear section now let's go to the front and check that part out so now we are at the front section
05:45of the harrier ev and over here you get a lot of things now first of all you can see you get this
05:53electric rvm that I was just showing so it basically acts as a dash cam the rear it's recording it it
05:59gets a front camera as well right over here on the rvm that obviously records the front as well
06:04we have a 14.5 inch infotainment system a lot of things can be controlled from here you can control
06:09auto apple carplay is wireless you have amazon alexa you have a digi access dolby atmos ton of
06:15things can be controlled from this as well now this is again a touch panel over here just below
06:20the ac vents where you have a lot of buttons these are touch sensitive button two zone climate control
06:24360 degree camera you can open the boot open the charging socket so a lot of features over here you
06:29get a wireless charger right over here then you have 45 watt fast charging type c port right here
06:34and this is a dedicated scroller for the off-road mode now you have normal then you have snow and
06:39grass then there is mud ruts then you have sand and rock crawl and then you have a custom mode where you
06:45can customize and individually set your mode according to your needs well you have three other buttons you
06:50have your eco mode then you have your boost mode that obviously unleashes all 390 bhp that this car gets
06:57you have a sport mode and then you have a dedicated parking button this is your gear lever that's your
07:01parking sensor you also get an nfc card with this so this basically if you don't have the key this is
07:07the key of the vehicle but if you don't have this you can use this as well so on the b pillar you have
07:12the sensor for this you press it the car will unlock and right over here you have a sensor to start the
07:17car so you have to place the card over here and then you can start the car and drive off well you can
07:21also download the key on your smartphone and you don't need both these things if you have the key
07:27download on a smartphone you can obviously access the car through your phone as well
07:30now the steering wheel is adjusted for tilt and telescopic both it's a flat bottom steering wheel
07:36with which has this kind of a piano black finishing it has an illuminated logo steering mounted controls
07:41are on either sides these are your stocks for your wiper that's your stock for your headlight and
07:47obviously you have level 2 ADAS so you can control the ADAS features through the right hand side of the
07:52steering mounted controls now you can see that the upholstery of this is really nice you get a dual tone
07:58you have this blue kind of stitching that looks cool as i mentioned there is boss mode in this and
08:04these seats are ventilated both the seats are electronically adjustable and you have the
08:09ventilation option right over here there are three levels of ventilation and you can also see that the
08:13dashboard has some like it's it looks like carbon fiber but obviously it is not carbon fiber
08:18they have given this white kind of a treatment that actually looks very very nice so overall the cabin
08:23experience is good and now let's quickly drive the car and i will tell you everything you need to
08:29know about the driving part of the harrier.ev
08:32so now we have the driving seat of the all new harrier.ev and let me give you a quick
08:44specification about this car now this car comes in two variants now one is a rear wheel drive and one
08:49is an all wheel drive the all wheel drive is one that we are driving it's called the qwd that's a
08:53quad wheel drive battery pack option is a 65 kilowatt hour and a 75 kilowatt hour now the top and variant
08:59that we are driving today we are driving the 75 kilowatt hour battery pack if we talk about the power
09:04output 390 bhp and around 505 nm of peak torque is what this car produces now if we talk about the 0 to
09:13100 timing of this car now the 0 to 100 timing of the harrier.ev especially with the 75 kilowatt hour
09:18battery pack is around just below six seconds so i mean it is a pretty fast car and you have a lot of
09:26driving mode so you have terrain modes as well and as i mentioned you have driving mode you have a boost
09:31mode so we'll just quickly hit the boost mode and quickly show you the acceleration just do a small
09:37pull till there and here we go there you go there we already touched 90 kilometers and yeah on boost mode this
09:51car actually is very very quick so overall it is a very nice car to drive uh suspension wise the suspension
10:00is on the softer side but uh being on the softer side means that you have a little bit of a body roll but
10:06it is very very comfortable on the inside as well but uh yeah since it's an suv and since it has a big
10:12battery pack underneath so i mean body roll this is some this is not something that you will take very fast
10:17around corners yeah but one thing since this is the all-wheel drive version you can actually do some
10:22hardcore off-roading with this well we have an off-roading video that is running on our youtube channel
10:28so you can go check that out and it also has a adas video separate adas video that we shot
10:35and that is also live on our channel so you can go check out both those videos and we have already
10:41explained about the adas level 2 about all the features of the adas level 2 that this gets it's
10:45a very safe car talking about safety it gets a five star rating for adult occupants as well as
10:51child occupant and that is from bharat and cap so that's again a very good thing you have six airbags
10:57as standard and you have all four disc brakes but however the bite from the brake actually feels a
11:03little bit squishy uh the initial bite is not there but when you press the pedal a little harder
11:09then obviously the car will stop but that initial bite confidence is slightly not there so i mean it
11:15will not make you very confident when you're driving at high speeds talking about high speeds this can reach
11:21as i mentioned triple digit speeds 100 kilometers comes in and just under six seconds and obviously it
11:26can go all the way up to the 200 kilometer mark we already done 170 180 uh at the bic when we were
11:33testing the car for the off-road day so yeah 180 190 200 kilometers is not a problem so now let's talk
11:41about the range of this vehicle so the claimed range for the rear wheel drive that's the 65 kilowatt
11:45battery pack is around 538 kilometers but that is what tata claims but the range for this one that
11:52is the quad wheel drive the 75 kilowatt well you also have a 75 kilowatt battery pack with the rear
11:57wheel drive also so the quad wheel setup and the 75 kilowatt battery pack setup has a range as a claim
12:03range of about 622 kilometers well easily you can go more than 500 a little more than 500 kilometers
12:10realistically if you ask me and that is not a bad thing now since this is an ev let us talk about the
12:15charging as well now there are a lot of ways you can charge the car now the default charger that comes
12:20with the car is a 3.3 kilowatt charger that a that goes in your wall socket and trust me the 75 kilowatt
12:27battery pack it actually takes around 30 hours to charge now imagine like if that's an emergency
12:33charger obviously but 30 hours just from the stock charger that comes with the car obviously if you
12:39shell out around 50 000 rupees more you will get a 7.2 kilowatt charger and that charges the car
12:45from a 0 to 80 percent in i guess between 12 to 15 hours and then you have the 60 kilowatt of fast
12:52charging that will actually charge the car very quickly in about one and a half hours or one hour
12:5640 minutes this car also gets a one it i mean it can support a 120 kilowatt fast charging and and 0 to 18
13:03the 120 kilowatt of fast charging just takes around 25 minutes so imagine a 100 percent charge in 40 45
13:10minutes and that is something really really amazing obviously you will have to pay a little extra and
13:15you'll have to find 120 kilowatt charger you cannot install that charger at home because obviously it
13:19needs an industrial line because it's 120 kilowatt i mean it has a lot of power that it can consume so
13:25i mean you cannot get 120 kilowatt charger at your home the max you can get is maybe like an 11 kilowatt
13:31charger but 7.7 is what tata has apart from the stock charger that you get with the car
13:37so overall i would say the charging facility is nice since you have a lot of charger and 60 kilowatt
13:42charger uh is available almost like in every corner of the city uh somewhere or the other you will
13:48definitely find it so it's a very very nice car well acceleration as i showed you is very nice
13:54suspension is okay the steering wheel is good i would say however this two spoke steering wheel if it
14:00would not have had a two spoke steering wheel and a kind of a slightly rounded steering wheel it for the
14:04wheel would have been slightly better but the steering wheel is nice it is not something that
14:09you would like to complain um overall it's a good car uh pricing wise also it is very good the prices
14:16start at 21 and a half lakh rupees for the rear wheel drive variant and goes all the way up to the
14:2030.3 lakh ex-showroom mark uh for this one that is the 75 kilowatt hour quad wheel drive
14:27variant that we are driving today so guys overall it is a very good car and trust me i mean there's one
14:33thing that uh we would like to uh show you we cannot do this in the video but we'll have to make a
14:38separate reel on that so if you're below if you're traveling below 20 kilometers an hour uh there's a
14:44speaker inside the bonnet that actually tells people i mean it it makes some noise uh like uh i mean it is
14:52it is kind of an electronic noise that comes out uh hinting people that there is something rolling
14:56towards you because obviously this is an ev and it's a very very silent car um so overall guys it is
15:02absolutely blistering fast the harrier ev is a nice car it looks good it's got a brilliant color option
15:09harrier itself has been a very good model for tata and i think this is one of the best looking cars and
15:17the fastest car that you have in here well it also has a drift mode if you want to go a little bit of
15:23drifting especially the rear wheel drive on the all-wheel drive has it so the power cuts out on the front
15:28wheel and you have power on the rear wheel so you can slide around corners and trust me 505 nm of peak
15:34torque is a massive number and this is what it allows you to do
15:39yeah acceleration is definitely quick we'll just quickly accelerate over here once again before we end
15:51the video to just show you of how fast you can go on this car so here we go your floor foot down
15:58and there you go we reached almost 100 once again there you go so yeah it is a fantastic car overall
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