Tata licenses a Chinese EV platform to rescue its stalled premium push
India’s biggest electric carmaker will build its delayed Avinya models on a Chery platform, the latest Indian firm to borrow Chinese tech while avoiding a Chinese partner.
Tata Motors has a premium electric-vehicle problem and a Chinese solution to it. India’s largest EV maker plans to license a vehicle platform from China’s Chery to get its delayed premium models back on track, according to people familiar with the matter, a stop-gap that says as much about the state of the global EV race as it does about Tata.
The plan is specific. Tata will use the Freelander platform, produced in a joint venture between Chery and Jaguar Land Rover in China, to build EVs under its premium Avinya brand at its new factory in Tamil Nadu.
The first Avinya model on the Chery platform is due in 2027, initially shipped from China as a kit and assembled in India...
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