Tata Motors' commercial division plans to get future ready

Prices of commercial vehicles can shoot up by 7-9% on account of the switchover to SCR technology

After domestic sales of its commercial vehicles plummeted by 36 per cent in April this year following the sudden Supreme Court order banning sales of Bharat Stage (BS) III vehicles, Tata Motors' commercial vehicles division is getting future ready to avoid any such sales disruptions in the coming three years.

The company, which is now faced with an inventory of 15,000 BS-III graded commercial vehicles, of which the heavy vehicles account for atleast 27 per cent, is working on introducing Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) and Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) technology in its vehicles which will not just make its vehicles comply