From the Apex · Launch Mode · 2026-08-15

Mahindra's ₹11.45 lakh BE 6 actually costs ₹19.45 lakh.

The Sporteq update brings a third battery pack and a headline price that only exists if you rent the battery at ₹3.75 a kilometre.

• Bought outright, the BE 6 Sporteq starts at ₹19.45 lakh ex-showroom.
• The ₹11.45 lakh figure in most headlines is the Battery-as-a-Service price, plus ₹3.75 per kilometre.
• A new 70 kWh pack slots between the 59 and the 79, at 245 hp and a claimed 651 km.
• Deliveries began on 26 August, eleven days after the launch.

Two prices, one car, and about ₹8 lakh of difference in how you read the announcement.

Mahindra launched the BE 6 Sporteq on 15 August 2026, with deliveries from 26 August. Bought outright, the range runs ₹19.45 lakh to ₹26.95 lakh ex-showroom. The substantive change is a third battery: a 70 kWh pack making 245 hp and claiming 651 km, sitting between the 59 kWh (231 hp, 548 km) and the 79 kWh (286 hp, 683 km). All three make 380 Nm and all three claim 20 to 80% in twenty minutes at their rated charging speeds. Inside, a triple 12.3-inch screen layout replaces the old dashboard.

The number doing the work in most coverage is ₹11.45 lakh, and that is the Battery-as-a-Service price: you buy the car and subscribe to the battery at ₹3.75 per kilometre, quoted on 60 km a day across an eight-year term, before taxes and insurance. Run Mahindra's own assumptions and that subscription comes to roughly ₹6.6 lakh over the eight years, which lands close to the outright price, except that at the end of it the battery still belongs to Mahindra. Neither number is dishonest. They answer different questions, and only one of them appears on the invoice.

₹11.45 lakh buys you a BE 6. It does not buy you the battery.