Mumbai, March 21 -- Mahindra has started delivering the XEV 9e in India. The born-electric SUV, starting at Rs. 21.9 lakh (ex-showroom), will be delivered in a phased manner.

The Mahindra XEV 9e delivered to an owner, was finished in a shade of Tango Red, which is one of the eight colours in its slew of offerings. It also gets four variants and two battery pack options.

Pre-bookings for the XEV 9e began on 14 February. Both the BE6 and the XEV 9e generated a collective number of 30,000 bookings in a few hours of announcement, of which the latter took a 56 per cent chunk. This further branched out into the 79kWh variant (Pack Three) of the XEV 9e taking up 73 per cent of its total bookings.

The Mahindra XEV 9e has two battery pack optio...