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Electric Cars · India · The CITE Index

AI search visibility for electric cars brands in India

The brands ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Mode recommend when an Indian buyer asks an unaided question. Updated nightly. Every claim links back to the verbatim engine answer that produced it.

Brands tracked

11

Editions to date

63

Engines

03

Open today's edition21 Jul 2026 →Tata Punch EV led Electric Cars, cited in 55.1% of this edition's tracked answers, ahead of Mahindra BE 6 at 54.4%.

The Daily Fixing

3 engines · live

ChatGPTChatGPT#1 today

Mahindra BE 6

0.0%

■0.0% vs prev

GeminiGemini#1 today

Tata Punch EV

0.0%

■0.0% vs prev

AI Mode#1 today

Tata Punch EV

0.0%

■0.0% vs prev

Timeline · 63 editions

Click any day to open that edition

  1. Ed 01
    19 May
    Tata Nexon EV
  2. Ed 02
    20 May
    Tata Nexon EV
  3. Ed 03
    21 May
    Tata Punch EV
  4. Ed 04
    22 May
    Tata Nexon EV
  5. Ed 05
    23 May
    Tata Punch EV
  6. Ed 06
    24 May
    Tata Nexon EV
  7. Ed 07
    25 May
    Tata Punch EV
  8. Ed 08
    26 May
    Tata Nexon EV
  9. Ed 09
    27 May
    Tata Punch EV
  10. Ed 10
    28 May
    Tata Punch EV
  11. Ed 11
    29 May
    Tata Punch EV
  12. Ed 12
    30 May
    Mahindra BE 6
  13. Ed 13
    31 May
    Tata Nexon EV
  14. Ed 14
    01 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  15. Ed 15
    02 Jun
    Tata Nexon EV
  16. Ed 16
    03 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  17. Ed 17
    04 Jun
    Mahindra BE 6
  18. Ed 18
    05 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  19. Ed 19
    06 Jun
    Tata Nexon EV
  20. Ed 20
    07 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  21. Ed 21
    08 Jun
    Mahindra BE 6
  22. Ed 22
    09 Jun
    Tata Nexon EV
  23. Ed 23
    10 Jun
    Tata Nexon EV
  24. Ed 24
    11 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  25. Ed 25
    12 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  26. Ed 26
    14 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  27. Ed 27
    15 Jun
    Mahindra BE 6
  28. Ed 28
    16 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  29. Ed 29
    17 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  30. Ed 30
    18 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  31. Ed 31
    19 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  32. Ed 32
    20 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  33. Ed 33
    21 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  34. Ed 34
    22 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  35. Ed 35
    23 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  36. Ed 36
    24 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  37. Ed 37
    25 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  38. Ed 38
    26 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  39. Ed 39
    27 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  40. Ed 40
    28 Jun
    Mahindra XEV 9e
  41. Ed 41
    29 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  42. Ed 42
    30 Jun
    Tata Punch EV
  43. Ed 43
    01 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  44. Ed 44
    02 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  45. Ed 45
    03 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  46. Ed 46
    04 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  47. Ed 47
    05 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  48. Ed 48
    06 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  49. Ed 49
    07 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  50. Ed 50
    08 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  51. Ed 51
    09 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  52. Ed 52
    10 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  53. Ed 53
    11 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  54. Ed 54
    12 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  55. Ed 55
    13 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  56. Ed 56
    14 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  57. Ed 57
    15 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  58. Ed 58
    16 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  59. Ed 59
    17 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  60. Ed 60
    18 Jul
    Mahindra BE 6
  61. Ed 61
    19 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
  62. Ed 62
    20 Jul
    Mahindra BE 6
  63. Ed 63
    21 Jul
    Tata Punch EV
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Previously on The CITE Index

3 prior chapters

  1. 20 Jul

    Mahindra BE 6 led Electric Cars, cited in 63.3% of this edition's tracked answers, ahead of Tata Punch EV at 62.7%.

  2. 19 Jul

    Tata Punch EV led Electric Cars, cited in 61.3% of this edition's tracked answers, ahead of Mahindra BE 6 at 58.7%.

  3. 18 Jul

    Mahindra BE 6 led Electric Cars, cited in 60.0% of this edition's tracked answers, ahead of Tata Punch EV at 58.0%.

Editor's note

21 July 2026 · 21:00 IST

Cite Solutions Research

Tata Punch EV led Electric Cars, cited in 55.1% of this edition's tracked answers, ahead of Mahindra BE 6 at 54.4%.

The move

Across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Mode, Tata Punch EV appeared in 55.1% of tracked answers for this category, with Mahindra BE 6 at 54.4% and Tata Nexon EV at 54.3%.

What it means

This edition is part of the completed CITE Index dataset: 90,132 engine answers collected daily from May 19 to July 21, 2026.

Collection has concluded; the aggregate findings are published in the final report.

What moved this — the receipts

5 cited

Trajectory · top 5

63 days

Share of voice (%)

Brand position map

Rank × mentions · per engine

11 brands

Top-left = high mentions, top rank. Bottom-right = high mentions but lower rank — coverage exists but the model isn't placing the brand first.

Engine divergence

Engine divergence

2 different winners today

Today's three engines do not agree on the #1 brand. This is what makes a serious AI visibility audit different from a single-engine snapshot: ChatGPT leads with Mahindra BE 6; Gemini leads with Tata Punch EV; AI Mode leads with Tata Punch EV.

Today's metrics

Today's leader

Tata Punch EV

55.1% share of voice across all engines

Biggest mover

Mahindra BE 6

-8.9% on the day

ChatGPT leader

Tata Punch EV

0% on ChatGPT only

Engine gaps

11

brands invisible on 1+ engines

Per-engine verdict

ChatGPTChatGPT
Today's winner

Mahindra BE 6

52.2% share of voice on this engine

Top 3 here

1Mahindra BE 62Mahindra XEV 9e3Tata Punch EV
GeminiGemini
Today's winner

Tata Punch EV

60.9% share of voice on this engine

Top 3 here

1Tata Punch EV2Tata Nexon EV3Mahindra BE 6
AI Mode
Today's winner

Tata Punch EV

63% share of voice on this engine

Top 3 here

1Tata Punch EV2Tata Nexon EV3Mahindra BE 6

Full lineup

11 brands · 3 engines

#BrandSoV1-day Δ3-dayChatGPTGeminiMentions
01Tata Punch EV55.1%▼7.6%
0%#999
0%#999
0%#999
76
02Mahindra BE 654.4%▼8.9%
0%#999
0%#999
0%#999
75
03Tata Nexon EV54.3%▼0.4%
0%#999
0%#999
0%#999
75
04Mahindra XEV 9e49.3%▲5.3%
0%#999
0%#999
0%#999
68
05Tata Tiago EV39.9%▼4.1%
0%#999
0%#999
0%#999
55
06Kia EV623.9%▲3.2%
0%#999
0%#999
0%#999
33
07BYD Seal22.5%▲4.5%
0%#999
0%#999
0%#999
31
08MG ZS EV21.0%▼3.7%
0%#999
0%#999
0%#999
29
09MG Comet EV21.0%▼5.7%
0%#999
0%#999
0%#999
29
10BYD Atto 310.8%▼5.9%
0%#999
0%#999
0%#999
15
11Hyundai Kona EV2.2%▲0.2%
0%#999
0%#999
0%#999
3

Head-to-head

Who AI recommends more

Tata Punch EVvsMahindra BE 6Tata Punch EVvsTata Nexon EVTata Punch EVvsMahindra XEV 9eTata Punch EVvsTata Tiago EVMahindra BE 6vsTata Nexon EVMahindra BE 6vsMahindra XEV 9eMahindra BE 6vsTata Tiago EVTata Nexon EVvsMahindra XEV 9eTata Nexon EVvsTata Tiago EVMahindra XEV 9evsTata Tiago EV

Source pool

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Sentiment composition

PositiveNeutralCautiousNegative
Tata Punch EV50/49/1/0
Mahindra BE 645/55/0/0
Tata Nexon EV40/57/3/0
Tata Tiago EV44/49/7/0
Kia EV630/67/3/0
BYD Seal39/58/3/0

Engine fan-out queries

ChatGPT
  • No fan-out queries surfaced today.
Gemini
  • No fan-out queries surfaced today.
  • No fan-out queries surfaced today.

Prompts run today

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Who runs this index

The CITE Index is built and published daily by Cite Solutions, a managed GEO agency, using the same measurement pipeline we run for client brands. If you want to know how your own brand shows up when buyers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google AI Mode about electric cars or any other category, run an AI visibility audit and get the same per-prompt receipts you see on this page.

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