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    Maruti Suzuki’s initial EVs to target Upper Segment

    Maruti Suzuki’s early-stage electric vehicles will be launched in the upper price band, its Chairman R C Bhargava said on Wednesday. The carmaker expects to launch its first EV in 2024-25 (FY25) while answering shareholder questions at the company’s annual general meeting in the Capital.

    According to its green energy program, Maruti will manufacture anywhere between 400,000 and 500,000 CNG cars in 2022-23, marking a big jump from about 250,000 CNG cars manufactured in 2021-22, he said.

    “The EV production is going to take place in the Suzuki plant in Gujarat. We expect EVs to come in FY25,” he said. “They are not going to be in the lower end, to begin with. We hope to get good customer acceptance for these EVs because they have been carefully designed and manufactured,” said Bhargava.

    The level of indigenization in EVs will also be higher because of the battery plant being set up, he added. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had, on Sunday, laid the foundation stone for Suzuki’s EV battery plant in Hansalpur, Gujarat.

    In the past few years, the company put its EV plans on the back burner as it was wary of the high cost of acquisition and ‘range anxiety, which is the driver’s fear that a vehicle will run out of power and he/she will not be able to find a charging point. In the meantime, MSIL focused on alternative technologies, such as CNG and hybrids.

    The government is banking on EVs to reduce dependency on fossil fuels and curb emissions in a country that is home to some of the world’s most polluted cities.

    Maruti has seen its market share drop from a peak of 51.21 percent in 2018-19 to 43.38 percent in 2021-22 (FY22). Its consolidated net profit was Rs 4,389 crore in 2020-21, which went down 11.6 percent to Rs 3,879 crore in FY22.

    “From 2019-20, the sales of the company dropped 16 percent. But industry-wide sales dropped 18 percent. This drop happened due to a price increase that happened when we were switching over from Bharat Stage (BS) IV to BS VI. Subsequently, Covid-19 struck in 2020-21,” he said.

    “Market share will go up when we will get more and more vehicles into the sport utility vehicle segment. A new Alto was launched recently. This year has seen quite a few upgrades,” he stated.

    “They were delayed somewhat last year because of Covid-19. A number of new models are coming up and all of these will help us restore market share,” he added. Bhargava said Maruti is looking into the area of compressed biomethane gas fuel because it has “enormous potential” for the country.

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