Mahindra partners with Volkswagen to get electric components, battery cells | Company News – Business Standard

The 2 firms have been evaluating additional alternatives for collaboration, the assertion added

Volkswagen and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd have signed a provide settlement on the usage of key electrical parts of the German carmaker’s open platform for electrical autos (EVs), the businesses stated in a press release on Friday.

Mahindra plans to make use of sure platform parts, in addition to Volkswagen’s unified battery cell, for its personal electrical platform, referred to as INGLO, the businesses stated.

Mahindra shares climbed as a lot as 5.6% to a report excessive in Mumbai buying and selling after the information.

The Indian firm would be the first exterior companion to make use of the unified cell, a brand new cell know-how that Volkswagen plans to make use of for 80% of its battery cells and guarantees will cut back prices by half.

Volkswagen stated the settlement would run “over a number of years” and have a complete quantity of about 50 gigawatt hours of vitality storage capability over its lifetime.

The 2 firms have been evaluating additional alternatives for collaboration, the assertion added.

Volkswagen has developed a modular, open car platform for EVs, referred to as MEB, which is used to construct its vehicles and people of different group firms together with Skoda and Audi. This additionally permits Volkswagen to be a provider of electrical know-how and elements to different automakers.

The provision settlement was the primary of its form for Volkswagen – however the carmaker stated final September that it was in talks with different gamers about related offers, together with producers of vehicles with combustion engines in Asia who have been contemplating producing vehicles for the European market through a Volkswagen collaboration.

First Printed: Feb 16 2024 | 11:28 PM IST