Mahindra to use Volkswagens MEB EV components

Mahindra & Mahindra and Volkswagen have well-set to investigate the use of the latter’s MEB electric vehicle (EV) components, within the former’s upcoming EV products.

Specifically, the Indian automaker intends its new ground-up electric platform to use Volkswagen MEB electric motors, shower system components, and shower cells.

It’s unclear how variegated Mahindra’s final ‘Born Electric Platform’ will be from the existing MEB platform.

More details well-nigh this Mahindra ‘Born Electric Platform’ are expected to surface soon, pending a tightness supply contract that’s expected to be finished by the end of 2022.

Volkswagen ID.4

The MEB platform has unchangingly been designed as a modular platform. It currently underpins EVs such as the Volkswagen ID.3 and ID.4, Audi Q4 e-tron, Cupra Born, and Skoda Enyaq. It’s moreover set to be used in an upcoming Ford “mid-size crossover”.

The increasingly scale Volkswagen can generate from it, the cheaper its EV parts will become.

Mahindra and Volkswagen say are aiming to quickly electrify the Indian automotive market with this partnership, which is seen as “one of the most important automotive growth markets” to the companies.

India single-minded to only sell zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) – meaning battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and hydrogen fuel lamina vehicles (FCEVS) – by 2040. This was spoken at the COP26 climate summit in 2021.

Therefore, the electrification of the Indian passenger car and van segments are expected to proceeds significant momentum in the coming years.

“We are very pleased to have Volkswagen, a significant global investor in the electric mobility space, as a strategic partner in achieving our would-be Born Electric Vision,” said Mahindra & Mahindra executive director for the wheels and sublet sectors Rajesh Jejurikar.

“The complementarity of their wide-stretching technology, innovation, and vertical integration in supply chains, will provide a framework to develop our next- gen ‘Born Electric Platform’, to be revealed soon in Oxfordshire, UK.”

From the VW side of things, Volkswagen Group Components CEO Thomas Schmall said “Mahindra is a pioneer in the electric mobility space in India and a unconfined partner for our MEB Electric Platform.

“Together with Mahindra, we want to contribute significantly to the electrification of India, a huge automotive market with enormous growth potential and upper relevance for climate protection,” Mr Schmall added.

Mahindra Pik-Up

“It’s flipside proof point that the MEB is both technologically state of the art and highly competitive in terms of cost.”

Mahindra & Mahindra is the world’s largest producer of tractors and it currently owns world-renowned Italian diamond house Pininfarina.

Its parent visitor Mahindra Group has ownership stakes wideness industries such as financial services, hospitality, IT consulting, and defence.

In Australia, Mahindra first launched in 1990 with a slightly modernised version of the 1950s civil Willy CJ-3B Jeep, using Indian parts.

Pininfarina Battista

More recently it has imported the Pik-Up ute and Genio light truck, as well as the XUV500 seven-seat medium SUV. It is moreover gearing up to reveal the first all-new Scorpio four-wheel momentum in two decades, and it’s likely to make the trip to Australia too.

Mahindra & Mahindra is moreover planning to launch the Pininfarina Battista , an EV hypercar that shares its powertrain and mechanics with the Rimac Nevera.