Ashok Leyland Breaks Ground for Battery Pack Manufacturing Facility in Tamil Nadu

Ashok Leyland, the Indian flagship of the Hinduja Group and the country’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturer, announced the ground-breaking of a greenfield battery pack manufacturing facility at Pillaipakkam near Chennai. The project would incur an investment of Rs. 400-500 Cr, and is part of the investments from Hinduja Group as per an earlier MOU signed in September 2025. The new Battery Pack project aligns closely with Tamil Nadu’s Electric Vehicle Policy 2023, the National Mission on Transformative Mobility and Battery Storage, and India’s vision of achieving net-zero emissions by 2070. The facility will help localize EV battery pack production, strengthen India’s electric mobility supply chain and create new opportunities for employment and advanced skill development in Tamil Nadu.