Murugesh Nirani, Large and Medium Scale Industries Minister, informed the Assembly that a Russian company has evinced interest in setting up an electric vehicle plant in the state and the government has asked them to set it up in Belagavi. Nirani said a delegation from the company met him recently and the government convinced it to set up the plant in Tier 2 cities.

Omega Seiki Mobility has opened a new EV plant in Faridabad, Haryana. The company has invested around $ 10-billion on its third EV manufacturing unit, which will have production capacity of 15,000 electric three wheelers per annum.