India will see pilot deployments of hydrogen vehicles by 2025-26: Bosch

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Bosch Ltd. said it was working towards pilot deployment of hydrogen-based vehicles by 2025-26 in India.

“We as a country are not going to lag behind any of the advanced countries in the deployment of hydrogen-based vehicles,” Guruprasad Mudlapur, Joint MD and Chief Technology Officer of the engineering, automotive components and technology firm said while addressing the media on Thursday. “We should start to see some pilot deployments by 2025-’26 timeframe,” he added.

Bosch recently said it would invest €500 million globally in this area to develop components for hydrogen electrolysis.

Speaking on the occasion, Soumitra Bhattacharya, managing director, Bosch Ltd. and president, Bosch Group, India, said hydrogen was an area on which his company was focussing.

“Electrolysers help convert water into hydrogen. We were not doing that before, but we will now start doing that. So, we get into that aspect as well,” said Mr. Mudlapur.

According to him, Bosch already had had a full portfolio over the last 7-8 years, and it was now being deployed in pilot volumes all over the world. For instance; there were pilot vehicles running in China, Europe and the U.S., he said.

“For India... this is something we are working on together with original equipment manufacturers, and also with ecosystem developers,” he added.