Maruti e-Vitara BaaS: India's 'Rent the Battery' EV Plan

India's electric-car story has always run into one wall: the price.

This is Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS), and 2026 is the year it stopped being a footnote and became a mainstream sales pitch.

What 'Battery-as-a-Service' actually means

The idea is simple to state and surprisingly tricky to evaluate.

For the e-Vitara, Maruti pegs the battery's standalone value at roughly ₹5 lakh for the smaller 49kWh pack and about ₹5.