Nano Power

摘要

In new delhi in the early 1970s, myrnfamily traveled by scooter in the classic, death-defying Indian fashion. My father would drive, with me, a toddler, standing on the floorboard in front of him and my mother seated pillion, cradling my infant sister in her arms. My father was a civil engineer and my mother a nurse, and in India at that time, cars for a young family were far out of reach.rnMore than 30 years later, I listened to Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company for the sprawling $62.5 billion Indian conglomerate the Tata Group, describe families just like mine as the inspiration for the Nano, the ultra-cheap "people's car" that Tata Motors, a group company, launched March 23. "What sparked it off was riding in a car and looking at them and saying, 'Surely there's a safer way that these people can be transported,'" he recalled.