Coimbatore: E-Vehicle producers say production is highly affected by lack of important components such as processing chips and batteries, which are imported from abroad.
While demand is increasing, they are not in a position to cash in the same thing because of the short supply of components.
Some manufacturers say they now use their own technology to produce components such as batteries.
However, they still have to depend on importing chips from abroad.
K TAWAN, Chief Executive Officer, Ozotec Automobiles Private Limited, said they expect sales of only 15-20 e-scooters in March this year in each of their showrooms.
“However, the request suddenly increased.
Now, we can sell around 50 vehicles a month in each showroom.
The demand exceeds our expectations at any time.” He said the production was slow now because the unavailability of the main components in making batteries.
“While they are available in countries like China, there is a problem in transporting it because of the scarcity of containers.
However, we are not affected, because we do not completely depend on imports.
We have their own patented battery technology.” C Sathyachandran, the owner of Wagon Wheelz, said They cause losses, because the vehicle supply has fallen short of demand.
“While we can sell 150 e-vehicles a month, we barely get 20.
We have sold 85 electronic vehicles last October.
While we can easily sell three times the vehicle this year, a short supply might be a barrier.
We get a large number of questions Every day, but we cannot turn it into sales due to a short supply.
In fact, we canceled the order, because we could not send the vehicle as promised.
“He said when they had placed bulk orders with several companies, the last could not serve them.
“They will lose more business, if the production is not immediately improved.”