By Samachar Vishesh News
Chandigarh 10th September:- Ashok Leyland, flagship of the Hinduja
Group, today, on its 70th Anniversary, inaugurated its cutting
edge electric vehicle (EV) facility in its Ennore plant. It is India’s first integrated facility for design,
prototyping, testing, process prototyping and solutions design. The in-house
facilities include engineering, prototyping and testing for Motors, Battery
Modules and Packs and a Power Electronics Lab. Keeping in mind the rapidly
evolving and changing market and technology, it has been conceived as an
in-house start-up facility in order to stay flexible and fast.
Sharing
his views, Vinod K. Dasari, Managing Director-Ashok Leyland, said that in
our 70th year, we are laying the foundation for our future. The
EV Centre in Ennore will give us the edge throughout the evolution of
eMobility. He added that currently, we are the only OEM globally to offer
different Energy Management strategies and an architecture which is modular.
Our plan is to start working on new product platforms in EVs such as eLCV, Low
Floor City Buses, Last Mile Connectivity and Power Solutions products. We have
also launched a host of new Business Models including eMaaS (eMobility as a
Service) and eMSol (eMobility as a Solution) which ensures that we are closer
to our end customers and capture more value. The Government’s eMobility vision
is an opportunity for the country to save Forex and to reduce Oil dependence.
For the industry and us, it is an opportunity to reduce total costs of
ownership and, more importantly, be at the very cutting edge of technology for
the first time. This is truly in line with our philosophy of Aapki Jeet. Hamari
Jeet.
Commenting
on this milestone, Karthick Athmanathan-BU Head, EV's & eMobility-Ashok
Leyland, said that besides working on multiple technologies and platforms for
our products, are creating new disruptive products and services that will
change the very paradigm of Commercial Vehicle mobility. The focus is on a
massive number of internal initiatives for safety, reliability and optimizing
total cost of ownership. We are committed to exploit new opportunities in terms
of efficiency, energy, geometry and business models which Electric Drive Trains
offers. At present, we have a capacity to take care of about 5000-10000
vehicles per annum, with different battery and charging options. We have
leveraged start-ups in India as well as from abroad, to bring in innovative yet
cost-effective solutions that are offered by us on a turnkey basis. The idea is
to have a mature and dynamic portfolio of products, services and solutions when
the volume market takes off in a few years.
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