Maruti Suzuki EV

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Maruti Suzuki India will increase its production and aims to produce 20 lakh units in the ongoing fiscal with improving availability of semiconductors, according to company Chairman RC Bhargava. In his address to shareholders in the company's annual report for 2021-22, he said the upcoming mid-sized SUV Grand Vitara will play a key role in the challenge to touch 20 lakh units. In 2021-22, total sales of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL) increased by 13.4 per cent to 16.52 lakh units. It had lost out on sales in the first quarter of the fiscal due to the pandemic and production being affected by the shortage of semiconductors, mainly for domestic models, Bhargava wrote. "The number of unmet bookings with the company at the end of the year rose to about 2.7 lakhs," he said, adding MSIL's market share declined to 43.4 per cent from nearly 50 per cent as it lost some opportunity in the domestic market. As per Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) data, domestic passenger vehic

Grand Vitara will go on sale in September with prices expected to start at Rs 9.5 lakh

Maruti Suzuki is also focusing on growing its sport utility vehicle portfolio and the market share in that segment

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However, if sales of Baleno and Brezza models to Toyota Kirloskar and of LCV Super Carry are included, the dispatches were up from 130,348 units a year ago to 132,024 units last month

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Maruti Suzuki India is currently testing a fleet of 50 prototype EVs based on WagonR model platform developed by Suzuki Motor Corporation in Japan

Suzuki Motor is also in the process of setting up a lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in Gujarat's Halsalpur