{"id":422646,"date":"2021-06-26T10:50:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T05:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=422646"},"modified":"2021-06-26T10:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T05:20:26","slug":"ashok-leyland-to-set-up-mother-ev-plant-in-india-under-uk-subsidiary-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ashok-leyland-to-set-up-mother-ev-plant-in-india-under-uk-subsidiary-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashok Leyland to set up \u2018mother EV\u2019 plant in India under UK-subsidiary Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truck and bus maker Ashok Leyland NSE 4.40 % will set up a \u2018mother plant\u2019 in India under its UK-subsidiary Switch for its electric vehicle business.<\/p>\n<p>Switch UK will set up an Indian entity which in turn will put up the plant. The company\u2019s entire electric vehicle business will move to Switch which will also develop EV-specific platforms in buses and electric light commercial vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Ashok Leyland\u2019s existing EV products like the e-buses it has already supplied to cities like Ahmedabad and Patna will also move to Switch, said Gopal Mahadevan, CFO, Ashok Leyland. \u201cThe EV investments for Switch will not come out of Ashok Leyland,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truck and bus maker Ashok Leyland NSE 4.40 % will set up a \u2018mother plant\u2019 in India under its UK-subsidiary Switch for its electric vehicle business. Switch UK will set up an Indian entity which in turn will put up the plant. The company\u2019s entire electric vehicle business will move to Switch which will also develop EV-specific platforms in buses and electric light commercial vehicles. Ashok Leyland\u2019s existing EV products like the e-buses it has already supplied to cities like Ahmedabad and Patna will also move to Switch, said Gopal Mahadevan, CFO, Ashok Leyland. \u201cThe EV investments for Switch will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}