GM India to tie up with IIT-D

With oil prices hovering at around $70 per barrel, it was perhaps a matter of time before companies like General Motors India...

With oil prices hovering at around $70 per barrel, it was perhaps a matter of time before companies like General Motors India started exploring fuel-efficient means of conveyance. The company that markets its cars under the Chevrolet brand is undertaking a joint research project with IIT Delhi to develop a bio-diesel version of the Chevrolet Tavera.

The research is being conducted by the R&D arm of GM India—Bangalore-based India Science Laboratory—which conducts research on areas like vehicle design, virtual manufacturing and automotive materials, among others.

‘‘Moreover, we also plan to expand our entire range of cars substantially within the next three years and make inroads into the high-end ‘D’ and ‘E’ segment for which we will be looking at importing our premium models and re-engineering them to suit Indian conditions,’’ GM India president and MD Rajeev Chaba told The Indian Express.

Chaba said the company plans to bring in new fuel-efficient cars as well as diesel and CNG variants of some of the existing models. ‘‘We are launching the Optra CNG this month itself and will be targetting areas like Delhi and Gujarat which have CNG fuelling stations. But our hands are bound in places like Maharashtra where the government has not provided such infrastructure,’’ he said.

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