US auto maker General Motors and Bangalore-based Reva Electric Car Company have come together for developing an electric car. This new electric car would be launched within the next 12 months. The two companies are looking at both domestic and overseas market for the proposed electric small car based on the platform of Chevrolet Spark. Both companies are also planning to turn India into the electric vehicles hub.
"We are pleased to join hands with Reva to bring affordable small car platform-based electric vehicles to the market in line with government objectives to reduce fossil fuel dependence," General Motors India President and MD Karl Slym said.
Slym also said “Within 12 months from today, we will have the car on the roads. We are beginning our electric car venture with Reva on existing GM platform and the first car would be an electric Chevrolet Spark."
Speaking about this new tie-up, Reva Electric Car Company Deputy Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Chetan Maini said: "Each of the partners will use their strengths, with the aim of making India a global hub for the development and manufacturing of electric vehicles and related technologies."
With this tie up Indian consumers will get more options for the electric cars. We will see the new chevvy Spark with Reva technology with in a year. With these kind of steps we will see more green cars on the road and also help the environment.
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