new delhi tata motors is working to develop a range of small electric commercial vehicles to cater to lastmile distribution of goods a senior company official said on thursdaythe auto major which has already supplied over 600 electric buses in over nine cities in the country is in talks with a few ecommerce players and captive customers for the supply of the electric productsgoing forward the segment which is going to see electrification is the lastmile distribution it would be serviced by small commercial vehicleshere we are in touch with few e commerce players and some captive customers and they are quite open to look at holistic solutions which can move their lastmile distribution to zero emissions tata motors executive director girish wagh told reporters during an online press conferencethe auto major on thursday unveiled 21 new commercial vehicles including trucks buses and small commercial vehicleswagh noted that the company has been in talks with partners to develop the electric product range for the lastmile deliverieswe have been talking to them and while in the background developing vehicles for this purpose we are also working on what kind of charging infrastructure should be put in place what kind of financing needs to be there and what kind of support be provided to ensure that the solution becomes holistic and sustainablewe are therefore preparing ourselves for the lastmile distribution electrification wagh saidhe added that in the larger vehicles migration towards electrification will be through cng and other alternate fuelswagh said the auto major has over 20 million kms experience generated through sale of electric buses over the yearsit is a great experience and we have started utilising this into some of our new products even in the electric segment we are working in a modular manner so aggregates software and platforms are all done separately he addedasked about the semiconductor shortage issue wagh noted that the company has deployed various strategies to reduce the impactsemiconductor shortage is something which has crippled the entire global automotive industry and even we are not spared from thatwe are continuously watching the situation and we have deployed strategies in terms of reducing the use of semiconductors wherever possible without compromising on the functionality he statedthe company is also going for alternate sources and choosing variants which need lesser number of semiconductors wagh saidbesides the company has diversified its sourcing which has enabled it to face this crisis to some extent he addedwe have been impacted since third quarter of last year and there are few segments where we have not been able to produce to the extent we wanted to but we are keeping a watch on the entire situation and also working at various mitigation strategies to ensure that we are least impacted because this crisis is here to stay for few more quarters wagh statedon the outlook for the rest of the fiscal he said second half of this fisal should be much better than the first half we are quite optimistic about