Ratan Tata, the chairman of the miscellaneous Tata group of companies said to the media that Tata Motors will have an electric car in the market by September this year.

Ratan Tata is a Cornel trustee too. Tata was heard as saying by Cornell University on its micro-blogging feed on Twitter, “We will have an electric car in the market in September.”

At the Cornell Global Forum on Sustainable Global Enterprise organized by the university, Tata was heard talking about the electric car.

Ratan Tata at the Annual General Meeting of Tata Motors in 2008 said that the company was developing an electric car.

Tata reported to the foreign media at the forum that Tata Nano, dubbed as the world's cheapest car, is expected to be available in the US in the next two years.

Tata Nano was launched commercially in March in India. Nano, the most awaited car is expected to hit the roads soon.

As per the university website, Tata Education and Development Trust committed USD 50 million to Cornell in October 2008 to establish the Tata Scholarship Fund for Students from India and the Tata-Cornell Initiative in Agriculture and Nutrition, intended to improve the lives and livelihoods of India's rural poor.

Popular Tata Cars available in India:
Tata Nano
Tata Indigo (Sedan)
Tata Sumo (SUV)
Tata Safari (SUV)
Tata Winger (SUV)
Tata Indica (Hatchback)
Tata Indigo Marina (Wagon)

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