TCS's work on electric vehicles (EVs) and autonomous vehicles (AVs) appears to be picking up steam, especially since it acquired the assets of General Motors' technical centre in India in Bengaluru in 2019.

In these areas, the company has collaborated with over 15 startups, including Stoneridge, Velodyne, and Luminar Tech. These companies are working on projects such as lidar and battery management systems.

Stoneridge is a designer and manufacturer of highly engineered electrical and electronic systems, components and modules, primarily for the automotive, commercial vehicle, motorcycle, agricultural and off-highway vehicle markets.

Velodyne, a lidar technology company based in San Jose, recently opened a design centre in Bengaluru to drive innovation in lidar sensor and software solutions. The centre is expanding its engineering talent team in hardware, FPGA, embedded software, board design, systems engineering, ASIC, perception software, functional safety, cybersecurity, and other related areas.

“You are aware of our investment in taking over GM's technology centre in India. For GM now, more than 20% of that workforce is involved in their electric vehicles and autonomous vehicle programmes,” TCS CEO Rajesh Gopinathan said.

TCS provides engineering design services to GM in support of its global vehicle programmes. Over 1,300 of the 2,000 employees at the GM centre had transferred to TCS, including propulsion systems, vehicle engineering, controls development, testing, creative design, and special projects teams.

Gopinathan stated that TCS is collaborating with German vehicle technology firm ZF on ADAS (advanced driver-assistance systems) 2.5 development as well as addressing the significant shortage in chipsets, which is one of the automotive industry's major challenges.

"Our teams worked jointly with ZF to put together some analytics and a procurement solution that maximised the contextual knowledge and the data in the ZF system, and combined that with the ecosystem of partners that they have to identify both sources, as well as to optimise choices of products and portfolios, to maximise value and customer-centricity across their ecosystem,” he said.

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