During the Covid-19 epidemic, the whole automotive sector was hit by a scarcity of semi-conductors, causing manufacturing delays and extended wait times for new cars. As a result, a number of OEMs have stated that they will be trying to enter the semiconductor industry in order to avoid a situation like this. Tata Motors was one of the carmakers to make this claim. Although the domestic automaker remained silent on the subject until lately. N Chandrasekaran, the chairman of Tata Sons Pvt Ltd, detailed the conglomerate’s future plans on the subject during an event in Mumbai.
The chairman of Tata Sons announced that the company will manufacture semiconductor chips in India. He also stated that the company intends to develop batteries for electric vehicles in addition to semiconductor chips (EVs). Tata Motors is currently the country’s largest mass-market EV maker. Tata Group is also investigating collaborations for cell and battery manufacturing in India and Europe, according to Chandrasekaran.
Automobile and electronics manufacturers throughout the world are currently dealing with semiconductor shortages, which have been compounded by pandemic-related lockdowns in China and have resulted in higher input costs. To deal with the semiconductor constraint, Tata Motors is opting for premium freight, researching different chips, and procuring them on the open market, according to Chandrasekaran.
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The scarcity is expected to last at least six months, according to Chandrasekaran, with the fourth quarter being more unexpected than the previous year. Meanwhile, a government official said that Tata is in talks with Tamil Nadu to build a chip-making plant, with the state offering Coimbatore as the location, and that the business is still in talks with other southern states such as Karnataka and Telangana.
Meanwhile, the corporation is aiming to increase vertical integration across the board in order to develop in vehicle electrification. Under the ‘One Tata’ model, Tata Power, Tata AutoComp, Tata Elxi, and Tata Technologies have already made significant contributions to Tata Motors’ EV endeavors. The organization will soon announce a battery and cell localization strategy.
“We have swung towards e-mobility; we firmly feel that the world needs smart solutions,” Tata Sons chairman stated. We used the collective strength of the company to launch our first electric vehicle — since then, we’ve made incredible progress in Gen 1 and Gen 2; today, we’re happy to unveil the Gen 3 platform,” says the company. “We are really interested in the batteries; we have finalized the ideas,” he continued. “We’ll be launching our battery-making projects very soon,” says the company.
Tata Motors recently introduced the Avinya EV concept, which is built on the company’s new Gen 3 platform for pure electric vehicles. “We are developing this automobile with a worldwide benchmark; I see great chances to go global,” Chandrasekaran said of the next models based on this new platform. We can give a really good car if we produce the best software if we can focus on the finest electrical and electronic foundation,” he says.
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