Govt's role in emission should be confined to drawing up road map: Butschek

The first high-speed, fast-charging e-car with Ziptron technology will go on sale in the last quarter of the current financial year

The government’s role in emission should be confined to drawing up a road map; it must not be dictated by the choice of technology, leaving it instead to the manufacturers, said Guenter Butschek, chief executive officer and managing director, Tata Motors, on Thursday as the company unveiled a new technology platform called Ziptron.  

The modular technology will power all electric cars (e-cars) Tata Motors launches in the future. The first high-speed, fast-charging e-car with this indigenously developed technology will go on sale in the last quarter of the current financial year.

“Let the government determine the emission standards. Let’s make