Tata Motors, India’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, has delivered first-of-its-kind Hydrogen Fuel Cell powered (FCEV) buses to Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL), the country’s largest petroleum company, demonstrating its commitment to smarter and greener mobility solutions.
Heralding a new era of fully decarbonised transport, two buses were flagged-off by Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Hon’ble Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Housing & Urban Affairs, Shri RameswarTeli, Union Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Labour& Employment, Shri Pankaj Jain, Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Shri S M Vaidya, Chairman, IOCL, Dr. Umish Srivastva, Executive Director, IOCL, and Mr. Rajendra Petkar, President & Chief Technology Officer, Tata Motors, along with delegates from Government of India, Government of New Delhi and Tata Motors.
Tata Motors won a tender from IOCL to provide 15 FCEV buses to India to assess the hydrogen-based PEM fuel-cell technology’s potential as a mass transport solution for inter and intra-city commute. Mr. Girish Wagh, Executive Director, Tata Motors, said, “With proactive actions to develop and adapt new age technologies, we are creating future-ready transport solutions for both cargo and people to address the mobility needs of tomorrow’s India, today.”
