TVS Motor Company aims to build a "sustained dominant play" in the electric vehicle segment by leveraging various government initiatives like production-linked incentive scheme, among others. According to its annual report for 2021-22, the company has robust plans to scale up its play in the electric segment.
"The PLI (Production-Linked Incentive) and FAME II
(Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles) initiatives
of the government will be fully leveraged by the company and strategically
build a sustained dominant play in this segment," it said.
The industry is slated to grow rapidly and the company has
robust plans for this segment, it added.
"In addition, with the strategic association with BMW,
the company will be exploring the joint design and development of urban EV
options for the global markets," TVS stated.
The company has created a dedicated vertical for EV segment
with over 600 engineers and adopted the Centres of Competency (COCs) with an
agile working approach.
TVS sold more than 10,000 EVs in 2021-22.
Overall, the company said it expects to outperform the
industry in terms of sales growth on the back of new product launches and
economic activity once again gathering pace.
"Due to the strong product line-up, unwavering focus on
consumer, quality, cost and the strong new launches, the company is confident
about outperforming the industry, inspite of the global challenges and a tough
business environment," it said in the annual report 2021-22.
Domestic moped and economy motorcycle segments have lately
underperformed and are likely to return to growth, with some buoyancy expected
in rural agriculture led markets, it added.
With considerable improvement in the urban markets across
India, the company said it is positive about the performance of the scooter
segment. This segment will see significant demand from students, working women
and the broader replacement segment is likely to perform better in line with
the re-opening of school, colleges along with offices, the company stated.
Besides, two wheeler exports are also likely to witness
growth during the year fueled by strong demand for the company's products and
due to its operations in diverse geographies that mitigates overall risk.
"Some of the geographies, which are agriculture
dependent and have surplus of crude oil, will act as a hedge against the
countries which may face adverse impact due to high fuel and food prices,"
the company stated.
Elaborating on the challenges which could disrupt the
growth, the company noted that the demand growth is highly dependent on
improvement in consumer sentiment.
"The improvement in sentiment is yet to fully recover
to pre-COVID levels and could be impacted by inflation, especially energy and
food led, and any significant adverse development in COVID situation," it
said.
Monsoon still delivers the majority of the irrigation needs
of Indian agriculture, and any deviation from the predicted normal monsoons
would impact rural markets significantly, it added.
Besides, any further price increases due to additional
commodity cost escalation could adversely impact demand, TVS noted.
"The low and mid segment of the market have low
headroom for further price increases. Less than projected GDP growth and/or
consequent jobs growth could adversely impact domestic demand," it
cautioned.
During the year ended March 2022, the company's overall two-
and three-wheeler sales, including international business, grew by 8 percent at
33.10 lakh units as against 30.52 lakh units in 2020-21 fiscal.