Short first drives tell you how a car feels. Only a long-term test tells you how it lives. Six months and six thousand kilometres into our time with the Tata Curvv EV, the coupe-SUV has stopped being a novelty and started being, simply, the car we reach for.
The headline surprise is how little the sloping roofline has cost us in practice. Rear headroom is tighter than a conventional SUV, but nobody has complained on the school run or the airport dash.
Living with the range
Real-world range has settled at a dependable 400-odd kilometres in mixed driving, dropping predictably on the highway. Crucially, it has been consistent — no nasty surprises on cold mornings or in traffic.
Home charging has made the range question almost irrelevant. We plug in twice a week and have used a public fast charger exactly three times in six months.
The range you can trust matters more than the range on the brochure.
— From the long-term logbook
The niggles
It is not flawless. The touchscreen has needed two software reboots, and the ride can thump over sharp edges. Both are the kind of thing you notice in month one and forget by month three.
Would we buy one with our own money? On this evidence, yes — the Curvv EV has quietly become the most fuss-free car in our long-term fleet.