Force Motors to Launch Electric Traveller Van in Q1 2027, Pledges Rs 3,000 Crore
Force Motors Managing Director Prasan Firodia confirmed the electric Traveller van will launch between January and March 2027. The Indian vehicle maker has pledged Rs 3,000 crore across engineering, electrification and digitisation, with an electric ambulance and an electric Urbania also in development.
Force Motors will launch its electric Traveller van in the first quarter of 2027, between January and March, Managing Director Prasan Firodia has confirmed. The Indian commercial vehicle maker has also pledged Rs 3,000 crore to fund the push. It is the clearest Force Traveller launch window the company has given so far.
The money will go across engineering, electrification, hybrid driveline technology and digitisation. Force Motors has also committed to expanding manufacturing capacity to meet higher demand for the Traveller EV and the Urbania EV.
Platform nearly ready
Force Motors first showed its T1N monocoque electric platform in 2020 and promised electric Traveller vans. A monocoque is a body built as a single structural shell rather than on a separate frame.
Firodia said development of the Traveller EV platform is complete. The vehicles are now in final testing and homologation with ARAI. Homologation is the official approval process a vehicle must pass before it can be sold.
Multiple Force electric vans will be built on this platform. It will also underpin special-purpose vehicles such as electric ambulances for intracity use. Finer details of the launch were not revealed.
What Force has already shown
The company has revealed the e-Traveller Smart Citibus EV. It runs on a 70 kWh battery pack and offers 18% gradability, meaning the share of slope it can climb.
The Citibus has a 14+D seating layout, a 3,350 mm wheelbase and a length of 5,415 mm. It offers an electrically operated jack-knife door, air conditioning, 1.8 m standing height, external and internal cameras and GPS. More variants are likely.
Urbania EV to follow
An electric version of the more premium Urbania is also under development. Force Motors plans to launch it within a few months of the Traveller EV.
Electric adoption in larger commercial vehicles will be slower than in smaller cars and SUVs, with diesel remaining the default for now. A few uses already suit electric power, including school buses, employee transport and intracity ambulances. Tourism and small inter-city routes are also probable early applications.
Spy shots of the Traveller EV under test have surfaced ahead of the launch window.
