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The Volvo group is planning to manufacture BS-VI compliant vehicles before April 2020 in India, when it will be placed properly in India, as per an official of the company. With the government’s verdict to fasten the handiness of the BS-VI fuels in Delhi, the company said the cars are future ready and the company will launch the models if compatible fuel can be availed in Delhi NCR. Although the Swedish manufacturer already has Euro-VI compliant vehicles internationally, the company is not launching them here because of lack of BS-VI fuel availability in India.
Internationally, the company has declared earlier that the models which are going to be launched before 2019 will be equipped with an internal combustion engine (ICE) and electrification of the cars.
Charles Frump, Volvo Auto India Managing Director said, "We are future ready and assessing the possibility of launching BS-VI compliant cars prior to the government's deadline if the fuel is available in Delhi NCR before."
He further says that India will be happy to receive various products based on this strategy.
Frump said, “We will place electrification at the core of our future business to drive environmental sustainability. An entire range of hybrids and fully electric cars will be launched globally starting 2019.”
“Volvo Cars' global ambition is to have 1 million electric and electrified cars on the roads by 2025, India is destined to play an important role in making this number.”
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Lately, the government of India declared to take initiative in adapting BS-IV fuel in the Delhi NCR from April 1, 2018, in due course to limit the increasing air pollution in the environment.
In the row to assist the initiative, three big oil PSUs, which are Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL), Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL), and IOC, said they agree with the decision and will provide BS-IV grade diesel and petrol to the Delhi from their operating refineries at Bhatinda, Bina, and Mathura from April month.
Previously, in 2015, India strongly decided to take a high leap to Euro-VI emission norm compliant diesel and petrol starting from April 2020, over the existing Euro-IV emission grade presently.
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