Mahindra to use Volkswagen electric components, battery cells
The Hindu
Volkswagen and Mahindra sign supply agreement for electric vehicle components, with Mahindra using Volkswagen's unified battery cell.
Volkswagen and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd have signed a supply agreement on the use of key electric components of the German carmaker's open platform for electric vehicles (EVs), the companies said in a statement on Friday.
Mahindra plans to use certain platform components, as well as Volkswagen's unified battery cell, for its own electric platform, called INGLO, the companies said.
Mahindra shares climbed as much as 5.6% to a record high in Mumbai trading after the news.
The Indian company will be the first external partner to use the unified cell, a new cell technology that Volkswagen plans to use for 80% of its battery cells and promises will reduce costs by half.
Volkswagen said the agreement would run "over several years" and have a total volume of about 50 gigawatt hours of energy storage capacity over its lifetime.
The two companies were evaluating further opportunities for collaboration, the statement added.