Tata Motors Ltd will lay the foundation stone for Jaguar Land Rover’s manufacturing unit in Tamil Nadu by September, according to a Business Standard report. This will be the first time that a high-end vehicle will be entirely manufactured in India. The unit will be fully operational until late 2025 or early 2026, BS reported, citing unnamed sources.
The company has collaborated with the government of Tamil Nadu and completed more than 400 acres of land near Panapakkam in Ranipet district. The merit of the location is its proximity to the ports of Chennai and Ennore.
Jaguar Land Rover will manufacture electric cars, while Tata Motors will produce a wide variety of cars, including hybrids, in factories in Tamil Nadu, according to other media reports.
In terms of component sourcing, Tata Motors will likely use at most the sourcing ecosystem of Hyundai Motor India (HMIL) and Renault Nissan Automotive India, and also use some of its own suppliers. The state government will supply the ecosystem, according to the original. appliance brands (OEM) and suppliers, according to the Business Standard report.
A new order in this sector will probably take between 12 and 18 months to get underway. Under this general rule, this task is expected to be completed by the end of 2025 or early 2026, according to the report, citing sources.
The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin, is expected to lay the foundation stone.
The production unit is expected to be a connecting link in the Chennai-Bengaluru Rs 18 billion industrial corridor, one of India’s next five mega-industrial corridors, the report added. The Bengaluru-Chennai Expressway and the Bengaluru-Chennai Dedicated Freight Corridor are two major infrastructure projects that are expected to generate connectivity along the corridor.
Currently, Jaguar Land Rover’s production facility in Pune assembles completely disassembled units (CKDs) of the Range Rover Velar, Range Rover Sport, Evoque, Jaguar F-PACE and Land Rover Discovery Sport.
In March, the company, in a filing with authorities, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tamil Nadu government committing to make an investment of around Rs 9,000 crore over the next five years. This is estimated to create up to 5,000 direct investments and downstream jobs, according to a report published in Mint on March 13.
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