Stock News Today: Ashok Leyland’s Electric Light Trucks Garner 10,000 Bookings Ahead of Q4 Launch

Stock News Today: Bookings for Ashok Leyland’s electric light trucks reach 10,000 ahead of their Q4 launch

• Ashok Ley­land, a lead­ing com­mer­cial vehi­cle mak­er, has recent­ly intro­duced its high­ly antic­i­pat­ed IeV series of elec­tric light com­mer­cial vehi­cles (e‑LCVs), mark­ing a sig­nif­i­cant stride in the realm of sus­tain­able trans­porta­tion.
• Antic­i­pa­tion and excite­ment sur­round the upcom­ing launch of the elec­tric LCVs, sched­uled for the fourth quar­ter of this finan­cial year, accord­ing to Dheer­aj Hin­du­ja, the Exec­u­tive Chair­man of Ashok Ley­land. Ini­tial mar­ket feed­back sug­gests a strong inter­est from cus­tomers, reflect­ing a robust order book with over 10,000 vehi­cles already booked.
• The elec­tric vehi­cles are devel­oped under the ban­ner of Switch Mobil­i­ty, the ded­i­cat­ed elec­tric vehi­cle divi­sion of Ashok Ley­land. The unveil­ing of the IEV3 & 4 mod­els took place in Chen­nai, show­cas­ing the com­pa­ny’s com­mit­ment to eco-friend­ly solu­tions for last-mile trans­porta­tion needs.
• The “twin broth­ers” in the IeV series, name­ly the IeV 3 and IeV 4, are strate­gi­cal­ly designed with a 330 V high volt­age EV archi­tec­ture, posi­tioned with­in the 2–3.5 tonne com­mer­cial vehi­cle cat­e­go­ry. These vehi­cles are not just tech­no­log­i­cal­ly advanced but are also envi­ron­men­tal­ly con­scious, con­tribut­ing to the glob­al shift towards green­er trans­porta­tion solu­tions.
• With a car­go body extend­ing up to an impres­sive 9.7 feet, these elec­tric LCVs offer prac­ti­cal­i­ty with­out com­pro­mis­ing on effi­cien­cy. Notably, they are capa­ble of accom­mo­dat­ing a con­tain­er of 340 cubic feet, under­lin­ing their ver­sa­til­i­ty for var­i­ous trans­porta­tion needs.
• The pro­jec­t’s finan­cial com­mit­ment is note­wor­thy, with a cost of about Rs 100 crore ded­i­cat­ed to the devel­op­ment of the IEV3 & 4 mod­els. The pro­duc­tion of these elec­tric vehi­cles will take place at Ashok Leyland’s Hosur facil­i­ty, empha­siz­ing the com­pa­ny’s com­mit­ment to local man­u­fac­tur­ing and con­tribut­ing to the growth of the elec­tric vehi­cle ecosys­tem in the region.
• This ambi­tious for­ay into elec­tric LCVs under­scores Ashok Ley­land’s ded­i­ca­tion to inno­va­tion, sus­tain­abil­i­ty, and meet­ing the evolv­ing demands of the mar­ket. As the auto­mo­tive indus­try under­goes a trans­for­ma­tive shift towards elec­tric mobil­i­ty, Ashok Ley­land’s strides in this direc­tion posi­tion it as a key play­er in shap­ing the future of com­mer­cial elec­tric vehi­cles.

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