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Suzuki to start testing prototypes of electric vehicles in India by October

The company would launch EVs in India around 2020 in cooperation with Toyota Motor Corp.

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|Sep 07, 2018, 15:48:42 IST

Japans’s Suzuki Motor Corp will start testing prototypes of electric vehicles in India by October, its chairman said on Friday.[caption id="attachment_5135951" align="alignnone" width="1024"]Representational image. Creative credit: Tech2/Nandini Yadav Representational image. Creative credit: Tech2/Nandini Yadav[/caption]“We will start road-running tests using a fleet of 50 EV prototype vehicles in India from next month in order to develop safe and easy-to-use EVs for Indian customers,” Osamu Suzuki said at the Global Mobility Summit at New Delhi.The parent of India’s top-selling automaker, Maruti Suzuki Ltd, would start production of lithium-ion batteries for automobiles at its plant in western India from 2020, he said.The company would launch EVs in India around 2020 in cooperation with Toyota Motor Corp, he added.

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First Published:Sep 07, 2018, 15:48:42 IST
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