TVS to re-launch electric scooters in 2011-12

Saturday, 12 March 2011, 00:11 IST
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New Delhi: Chennai-based two-wheeler maker TVS Motor Company today said it will re-enter the Indian electric scooter market with some existing and new models in the next fiscal. The company is currently carrying out test runs of about 50 electric scooters across various towns in the country. "We are working on introducing electric scooters and these are being experimented for the launch. By some time next fiscal, it will come (to the market)," TVS Motor Company President (Marketing) H S Goindi told reporters here. About 50 electric scooters, comprising some of its existing and new models, are being tested across the country, he added. "We will launch only scooters in electric mode. The products will initially run on lead acid batteries and later we may develop some other technology also," Goindi said. The company will produce these new products at its Mysore facility, he said.
Source: PTI