Electric Cars · India · The CITE Index

AI search visibility for electric cars brands in India

Name: Electric Cars · The CITE Index · India
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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

57

Engines

03

Open today's edition15 Jul 2026 →Kia EV6 appeared 7.4% more often in electric cars answers today than yesterday.

The Daily Fixing

3 engines · live

ChatGPT#1 today

Mahindra BE 6

66.0%

▼-2.0% vs prev

Gemini#1 today

Tata Punch EV

66.0%

▲+2.0% vs prev

AI Mode#1 today

Tata Punch EV

70.0%

▲+18.0% vs prev

Timeline · 57 editions

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Previously on The CITE Index

3 prior chapters

Editor's note

15 July 2026 · 21:00 IST

Cite Solutions Research

Kia EV6 appeared 7.4% more often in electric cars answers today than yesterday.

The move

Tata Punch EV held the lead, named in 60.0% of electric cars answers (rank 1). The biggest day-over-day move was Kia EV6, which appeared 7.4% more often than yesterday.

Each engine still picks its own favourite — ChatGPT recommended Mahindra BE 6 most, Gemini led with Tata Punch EV, and Google AI Mode pointed to Tata Punch EV.

What it means

Awaiting editorial review. The reading above is auto-generated from today's data; a Cite Solutions Research analyst will replace this paragraph with a structural read of the day.

What moved this — the receipts

5 cited

Tata Punch EV
Growing citationChatGPT
41 → 45 cites (+4) on CHATGPT
aauto features / every electric car under rs 15 lakh 437183autocarindia.com/auto-features/every-electric-car-under-rs-15-lakh-437183
Tata Tiago EV
Growing citationAI Mode
20 → 25 cites (+5) on AIMODE
ywatchyoutube.com/watch
Mahindra BE 6
Growing citationAI Mode
15 → 18 cites (+3) on AIMODE
tnew cars / search by / electric cars under 30 lakhsteam-bhp.com/new-cars/search-by/electric-cars-under-30-lakhs
Tata Tiago EV
Growing citationChatGPT
7 → 17 cites (+10) on CHATGPT
sblog / best electric cars in indiaspinny.com/blog/best-electric-cars-in-india
Tata Punch EV
Growing citationGemini
13 → 16 cites (+3) on GEMINI
anew cars / electric+cars under 15 lakhsauto.hindustantimes.com/new-cars/electric+cars-under-15-lakhs

Trajectory · top 5

57 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

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

60.0% share of voice across all engines

Biggest mover

Kia EV6

+7.4% on the day

ChatGPT leader

Mahindra BE 6

66% on ChatGPT only

Engine gaps

3

brands invisible on 1+ engines

Per-engine verdict

ChatGPT

Today's winner

Mahindra BE 6

66% share of voice on this engine

Top 3 here

Gemini

Today's winner

Tata Punch EV

66% share of voice on this engine

Top 3 here

AI Mode

Today's winner

Tata Punch EV

70% share of voice on this engine

Top 3 here

Full lineup

11 brands · 3 engines

#BrandSoV1-day Δ3-day

Mentions

01

Tata Punch EV60.0%▲4.0%

44%#2

66%#1

70%#1

90

02

Mahindra BE 657.3%▲2.0%

66%#1

50%#4

56%#3

86

03

Tata Nexon EV52.7%▲1.4%

40%#3

56%#2

62%#2

79

04

Mahindra XEV 9e41.3%flat

38%#4

56%#3

30%#6

62

05

Tata Tiago EV34.0%▲2.7%

26%#5

42%#5

34%#5

51

06

MG Comet EV28.0%▲5.3%

16%#6

38%#6

30%#7

42

07

Kia EV622.7%▲7.4%

0%#999

34

08

MG ZS EV22.0%▲2.0%

12%#8

18%#9

36%#4

33

09

BYD Seal18.7%flat

0%#999

28

10

BYD Atto 317.3%▲6.0%

0%#999

26

11

Hyundai Kona EV2.7%▲1.4%

2%#11

4%#11

4

Head-to-head

Who AI recommends more

Tata Punch EVvsMahindra BE 6

Tata Punch EVvsTata Nexon EV

Tata Punch EVvsMahindra XEV 9e

Tata Punch EVvsTata Tiago EV

Mahindra BE 6vsTata Nexon EV

Mahindra BE 6vsMahindra XEV 9e

Mahindra BE 6vsTata Tiago EV

Tata Nexon EVvsMahindra XEV 9e

Tata Nexon EVvsTata Tiago EV

Mahindra XEV 9evsTata Tiago EV

Source pool

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DomainCitesEngine splitLead

Sentiment composition

PositiveNeutralCautiousNegative

Tata Punch EV42/48/7/3

Mahindra BE 636/60/3/0

Tata Nexon EV43/51/5/1

Mahindra XEV 9e31/68/2/0

Tata Tiago EV45/51/2/2

MG Comet EV36/50/12/2

Kia EV632/62/6/0

Engine fan-out queries

No fan-out queries surfaced today.

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.