for twowheeler companies diwali may arrive on a mobike this festive seasonmumbai diwali may arrive on two wheels this time scooter and motorbike manufacturers are aiming for bumper festive season sales with almost all of them revising their septemberoctobernovember production plans upwards by 825 to cater to the anticipated high demandhero motocorp bajaj auto tvs motor and royal enfield are major players who have charted out a new output plan for septemberoctober adding to their earlier diwali plans drawn up in junejuly continued preference for personal mobility choices and strong rural buying are manufacturers reasons for betting on a brighter diwali advt executives who spoke off record said the cumulative production plan for september october and november are seen at 165 million 2 million and 16 million respectively the one caveat is reimposition of local lockdowns that may affect the supply chain plus yearonyear sales growth rates in october and november may break into double digits on account of low base last yearhero motocorp cmd pawan munjal in his address at the auto component makers annual convention last week said he is reviewing the supply chain issues daily with an eye on ramping up production to meet demand165m units in septwe are in a very fortunate situation of having a much bigger demand than what we can make today he saidthe monthly production target of twowheeler makers is revised upwards by 821 for september compared with the tentative monthly share with vendors during midaugustsaid a senior executive at a vendoraccording to the revised plans indias largest bike maker hero motocorp is looking at producing 720000730000 units for september while tvs is targeting production of 280000300000 units and royal enfield is getting ready to make 6000065000 units this could translate into production of more than 165 million units in september hero will target its highestever output in october at 800000 units and while tvs motor is aiming at 400000 units which will be a record for the south indiabased twowheeler maker advt rakesh sharma ed at bajaj auto says the production plan for the coming months is definitely 2025 higher over previous months in preparation for the festive seasonthe inventory position is at about 30 days and the supply chain is still very fragile hence the focus is on ramping up capacity and meeting demand people are learning to live with covid and we expect things to be good added sharmaan email sent to hero motocorp and royal enfield did not elicit any response till the time of going to press tvs motor company declined to comment on ets queriesseveral twowheeler suppliers said production levels reached precovid levels in august and the order pipeline continues to be encouragingalso read ampere electric partners with credr to for 2w exhange program by ketan thakkar ashutosh r shyam et bureau published on sep 8 2020 at 0554 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post