Creta EV Range

The 51.4 kWh battery adds 90 km of certified range over the 42 kWh battery, and its motor makes 171 PS against 135 PS; both motors make 255 Nm. Divided by the certified range, each battery stores about 100 watt-hours for every kilometre.

Creta EV battery capacity is 42 kWh on the Executive, Executive Tech, Premium, Excellence and Excellence Knight and 51.4 kWh on the Executive (O), Smart (O), Excellence, Excellence Knight and Excellence Lounge. Both are a liquid cooled lithium ion battery pack. Both are covered for 8 years or 1,60,000 km under the same EV battery warranty terms.

Creta EV charging time on a DC fast charger above 100 kW is 39 minutes from 10% to 80% for either battery. On Hyundai's 7.4 kW AC fast charger a full 10% to 100% charge takes 6 hours for the 42 kWh battery and 7 hours 15 minutes for the 51.4 kWh battery.

The portable charging cable that comes with every Creta EV takes about 16 hours 55 minutes (42 kWh) or 20 hours 40 minutes (51.4 kWh) from a household socket; it is meant for emergencies rather than a full charge. A 50 kW public DC charger takes about 58 minutes from 10% to 80%, against 39 minutes on a charger above 100 kW. Each time varies with the battery's charge level, the charger's output and the battery and outside temperatures.

For an electric car, mileage is the distance on a full charge: 420 km and 510 km certified. In rupees, at an example home tariff of ₹8 a unit, the 42 kWh Creta EV costs ₹0.80 a km and the 51.4 kWh car ₹0.81; 42 kWh of electricity, the smaller battery's capacity, costs ₹336 at that rate. At a public fast charger's example ₹20 a unit the cost per km is ₹2.00. Charging losses add to all of these.

The Excellence is sold with both batteries (as is its Knight edition): the 51.4 kWh version costs ₹2,36,700 more ex-showroom (₹23,67,200 against ₹21,30,500) for 90 km more certified range, about ₹2,630 for each extra km. The lowest-priced Creta EV with the 510 km figure is the Executive (O) at ₹19,99,900.