VE Commercial Vehicles, a JV company of Sweden's Volvo Group and homegrown Eicher Motors, is planning to invest Rs 1,000 crore by December 2014 in India.

The company intends to invest in upcoming bus manufacturing facility and expansion of its existing truck manufacturing plant.

Recently, the JV firm commenced commercial production at its new engine plant at Pithampur in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh. The engine plant produces Euro VI compliant engines. The project has been set up with an initial investment of Rs 375 crore to produce 25,000 engines per annum in Phase-I. VE Commercial will invest another Rs 125 crore by 2015 to take the production capacity to one lakh engines per annum.

VE Commercial Vehicles is manufacturing Euro VI compliant-base engines for meeting automotive requirements of medium duty engines of Volvo Group, globally. It will supply the base diesel engines to Volvo's plant at Venissieux, France, where these will be assembled for the Volvo Group Euro VI requirements.