General Motors is planning to launch hybrid and electric cars in India within the next five years.
The company will be showcasing its hydrogen car GM Sequel at the Auto Expo in New Delhi, to study the market and understand the audience response.
The company has tied up with Indian Institute of Kharagpur (IIT KGP) to carry out joint research in the areas of Electronics, Controls and Software (ECS). The partners will also jointly develop a curriculum for post graduate degree in these fields.
Electrical & Controls Integrations Lab director Dr Nandy Boules said, “We are committed to electrification of vehicles and believe that electrification is inevitable. It can happen through hybridisation, plug-ins and others. The real challenge now is cost.”
GM has committed more than $1 million for research to be done over the next five years within the new collaborative research lab. The lab will be co-managed by GM’s India Science Lab (ISL) in Bangalore and IIT KGP’s Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy unit.
Globally, the company is working on getting the cost-structure of its hybrid and electric vehicles, and is likely to have the technology, cost and other parameters in place from the R&D centre by 2010.
GM to Launch Hybrid and Electric Cars in India by 2012
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