Over six months after Ford India announced the shutdown of its manufacturing unit near Chennai, the company is said to be in talks with the Tamil Nadu government over a possible return to the same unit as part of its electric vehicle (EV) roadmap.
The talks are said to have started after the government approved Ford’s proposal for manufacturing and exporting EVs as part of the Rs 25,938-crore production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme in February.
Tamil Nadu is now hopeful that Ford, which had announced the closure of its manufacturing units at Maraimalai Nagar in Tamil Nadu and Sanand in Gujarat on September