The Pepper Motion team with Andhra CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy at his camp office in Tadepalli on Wednesday.
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Hyderabad: Germany's Pepper Motion GmbH will be foraying into the Indian market with a $600 million fully-integrated electric bus & truck complex in Andhra Pradesh. The unit will both convert diesel buses and trucks as well as make new vehicles. It will also have battery production of up to 20 GWh.
The complex, which will come up in three phases at Punganur in Chittoor district, will have capacity to make 30,000 battery electric vehicles (BEV) which will be buses and 18,000 BEV/full cell electric vehicles (FCEV), that will include both heavy and light commercial vehicles, with associated charging solutions by third quarter of 2027. It will also include the 20 GWh battery pack and powertrain assembly facility.
On Wednesday, Pepper Motion team led by its CEO Andreas Hager met Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, in Tadepalli. The phase-I of the project will be operational by the second quarter of 2025, the phase-II by the third quarter of 2026 and the final phase as mentioned by the second quarter of 2027
“This facility will form the global sourcing base for our partners and for Pepper operations across Europe, ASEAN, North America. With expected employment to 8100 technicians engineers,” a representative of the Denkendorf-headquartered Pepper Motion said.