new delhi japanese auto major nissan is conducting a feasibility study for producing electric vehicles in india including setting up a battery manufacturing unit company chief operating officer ashwani gupta said on thursdaythe company has already started the oneyear study and it is slated to be completed in the next nine months if it gets a positive outcome then the company will consider manufacturing evs not just for the indian market but for exports as wellnissan which is also developing kei mini electric cars in japan in partnership with mitsubishi could also consider kei electric mini commercial vehicles for the indian market to address the needs of the last mile delivery segment which is rapidly growingstating that nissan is moving ahead with its electrification strategy all over the world gupta said for india what we are studying today are the three things one is the car manufacturing but the most important second thing is the battery manufacturing if the battery is an integral part of the car manufacturing we need to have battery and car together in terms of industrialisationthe third thing is the charging infrastructure he said during a virtual interaction with reportersso these are the three things which we are studying today and i think india has got the great opportunity to address all the three things and the moment we will be realising that study we will decide what to do about electrification in india he saidwhen asked about the timeline for the completion of the study he said within one year we will complete this study we have already kicked off three months ago i think within nine months we will be ready with this studyon a query if nissan would consider exporting evs from india gupta said if we are coming up with an electric car in india only domestic demand will not help us because of the economy of scale and definitely we will have to explore the opportunity for exporthe stressed that to have a successful ev industry india should not think of importing either fully built or assembling completely knocked down unitsindia should do the electric car right from zero fully localised the battery technology is so important in electric cars and if india gets the competitiveness on battery technology then i think india becomes a global hub for the electric car export gupta saidhe also said that for localisation of battery manufacturing the minimum capacity requirement is a gigawattyou need to have proper infrastructure to manufacture batteries because of the safety high voltage current and so on so at minimum we have to put in a gigawatt obviously we need those kinds of volume gupta saidstating that to localise and to manufacture electric cars is so much driven by the battery plant and battery technology he said thats where we are studying now how to make that in indiamaking electric cars is important but most important is batteryreplying to a query if nissan would look at opportunities in the electrification of