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With ‘One Tata’ approach, Tata
Motors collaborates with other
Tata Group companies to provide
a turnkey solution with respect to
vehicles, charging infrastructure,
maintenance services and financial
assistance for procurement and
functioning of the EVs. Tata
Motors recently partnered with
Volercars, a leading mobility
solutions company that will be
delivering this integrated solution
with value added services to
Cognizant including on ground
operations & fleet management
for their Hyderabad campus.
“With our understanding of providers, government agencies Lower taxes will help faster
the technology and customer and others to address infrastructure adoption of electrification by
requirements, we have bagged and cost issues.” gradually eliminating ICE [Internal
the order for Tigor EV, which we Toyota has been at the Combustion Engine] over the period
are supplying to EESL currently. forefront of pioneering advanced & improve customer acceptance
We have also provided EVs to a technologies which are towards in a phased manner. Such energy
few State governments. In the solving national issues in the saving & environment protection
Commercial vehicle category, we countries, they operate in. A criteria should eventually become
successfully participated in the EV source from Toyota Kirloskar the basis for taxation.”
bus tendering process and have Motor, said “We would like to Pune based Frugal Innovations
won orders from six cities. offer solutions which are beneficial Pvt Ltd retrofits petrol and diesel
Earlier this year, Tata motors to the consumers and solve such based vehicles into electric vehicle,
displayed an extended range of six national issues as safety, carbon Mahesh Kulkarni, Director, Frugal
EV products enabling personal and emissions and fuel import. It is Innovations Pvt Ltd, said, “EVs are
mass mobility which will has smart important to remain technology energy efficient when compared to
connections. They will interact with agnostic with alternate fuel driven
cities through WiFi and connect to mobility. Finally, which technology
city services. succeeds depends on many factors
To capture the opportunities in the market place and we would
arising out of new mobility trends be ready with our solutions to
and to bring organizational focus meet customer expectations.
and alignment, they established a Toyota Kirlsokar Motor is perhaps
new Electric Mobility vertical this the first OEM to bring Hybrid
year. The business vertical will Electric Vehicles [HEVs] to India. In
enable Tata Motors to deliver on its Toyota’s vision of mobility 2050,
aspiration of providing innovative all electrified vehicle technologies
& competitive e-mobility solutions. [xEVs] will remain relevant where
“We will drive Tata Motors’ EV would cover short distance
vision of proactively developing commute, while HEV/PHV includes
the e-Mobility ecosystem in the passenger cars and FCVs would be fossil fuel driven vehicles primarily
country and leveraging this new for buses/trucks. As of May 2018, due to the energy recovered during
opportunity for the ‘One Tata’ globally, Toyota has sold more braking and practically require no
group with our capability to than 12 million electrified vehicles maintenance. EVs help in combating
offer a complete turnkey solution contributing to 90 million tons of climate change which is the need
for companies, shared-mobility Co2 reduction. of the hour. Further EVs help in

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