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Japan's Suzuki to invest $1.4 billion for EVs, batteries at India factory

Suzuki Motor plans to invest 104.4 billion rupees ($1.37 billion) in its India factory to produce EVs and batteries, Maruti Suzuki India, majority-owned by the Japanese carmaker, said on Sunday.

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Suzuki Motor plans to invest 104.4 billion rupees ($1.37 billion) in its India factory to produce electric vehicles (EVs) and batteries, Maruti Suzuki India, majority-owned by the Japanese carmaker, said on Sunday.

It is the first major EV plan announced by Maruti Suzuki for India in a bid to align itself with a national strategy to reduce oil dependence and cut debilitating air pollution in major cities.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, visiting his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on Saturday announced $42 billion of investment in India over the next five years.

Suzuki Motor Gujarat Private will invest 31 billion rupees by 2025 for increasing production capacity for battery EV manufacturing and 73 billion rupees for construction of plant vehicle batteries, the company said.

 

"Suzuki's future mission is to achieve carbon neutrality with small cars," said Suzuki Motor president Toshihiro Suzuki.

Tata Motors is the largest seller of electric cars in India, with rival Mahindra & Mahindra and motor-bike maker TVS Motor firming up their EV plans.

 

(Reporting by Aftab Ahmed and Aditi Shah; Editing by William Mallard)

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First Published: Mar 20 2022 | 4:09 PM IST

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