Chennai: Tata Passenger Electric Mobility Ltd (TPEM) and Jaguar Land Rover Plc (JLR), both 100% subsidiaries of Tata Motors Limited (TML), have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the licensing of JLR’s electrified modular architecture (EMA) platform for a royalty fee (including electrical architecture, electric drive unit, battery pack and manufacturing know-hows) for the development of TPEM’s ‘premium pure electric’ vehicles series ‘Avinya’ on the EMA platform.
TPEM and JLR will also enter into an engineering services agreement (ESA) to support TPEM’s change content requirements for the first vehicle development, the company said in a statement. JLR’s EMA platform will underpin the next generation of ‘pure electric’ mid-sized SUVs for international markets to be launched from 2025 onwards.