- 45kWh battery likely
- Could be the segment’s most powerful electric
Tata Motors will launch the Punch EV facelift on 20 February, 2026. The upcoming iteration’s front end had already been revealed, and it has sacrificed the connected setup found in the earlier version. A recently surfaced spy shot confirms that the Punch EV facelift will get the exact same rear setup as its ICE sibling.
While the rear end could easily lead to mixed inferences, the front end and new aero-optimised alloys give away that this is indeed the electric. Internally, the sub-4m SUV should borrow from its ICE sibling, albeit with some dedicated EV bits.
Mechanically, we’ve so far speculated that the Punch EV facelift will mirror its existing iteration. While this could hold true for a majority of its variants, Tata Motors has hinted that the new Punch EV will exceed 500 kilometres on a single charge. We are seeing a pattern here. The ICE Punch, with its new 118bhp turbo-petrol motor, is overpowered, if that’s an apt way to put it. This is the exact same thing happening with the upcoming Punch EV. While the existing iteration gets 25kWh and 35kWh battery packs, the upcoming iteration, we speculate, will borrow the larger 45kWh LFP unit from its elder sibling, the Nexon EV. This means not only an increase in capacity, but also in the overall power figure.
This is purely speculative, and the Punch EV could get the same 143bhp/215Nm configuration. Since the Nexon EV 45 gets 489km claimed range, the same would increase with the new Punch EV, given a smaller overall footprint.
