Tata Motors may have plans to manufacture Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) cars in Tamil Nadu. It is expected that the automaker will roll out battery-powered JLR vehicles from the upcoming plant.
The company has set up a vehicle manufacturing unit in Ranipet district in Tamil Nadu with an investment of Rs 9,000 crore. This development is viewed as Tata Group’s effort to turn JLR into an EV brand. Last year JLR, which was acquired by Tata Motors in 2009, had announced that it would invest USD 19 billion over the next five years on EVs.
Even as global automakers have major plans to start manufacturing EVs in India, Vietnam-based EV maker VinFast Auto recently commenced construction work for a new EV manufacturing unit at Thoothukudi in the state, where the company has pledged a Rs 4,000-crore outlay.