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Yamaha working on electric two wheeler platform for India
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Yamaha Motor Research & Development India (YMRI), in conjunction with Yamaha Motor Corporation (YMC), Japan has commenced development of an all-new electric vehicle platform for India and other markets around the world, confirmed Yasuo Ishihara, Managing Director, YMRI.
About 100 engineers from Yamaha’s teams located in Japan, India and also other countries are contributing to the this project. Importantly, Yamaha’s global R&D teams are also understood to have identified approximately a dozen global component suppliers who will contribute to the platform’s development.
Only a few months ago, YMRI had confirmed conducting a feasibility study to learn about consumer requirements, usage pattern and also Indian climatic conditions critical to developing electric two-wheelers for the local market.
Speaking to our sister publication Autocar Professional on the sidelines of the 58th SIAM annual convention in New Delhi recently, Ishihara said, “The development of an all-new electric vehicle platform is underway. We always want to start a new product based on a global platform. It (the electric two-wheeler) won’t be only for the Indian market. It will be for the other global markets, too. Such a global (product) platform strategy we have (for the electric two-wheelers under development).”
He further added, “We are setting up alliances with some key suppliers (for EVs). That will hopefully fetch some good results for Yamaha’s India business of electric vehicles in the future. I won’t be able to share more details on this subject.”
Yamaha has experience in both, manufacturing and retailing electric vehicles in countries such as Japan, Taiwan and others. The company has recently forayed into the power-assist electric bicycle category and it currently retails them in several global markets including, prominently, the USA.
Ishihara, who has been to Taiwan to study the electric two-wheeler ecosystem, disclosed that Yamaha is considering the battery-swapping model as one of the potential solutions for the EV charging infrastructure.
