india says maini indias 2030 vision of emobility is a revenue of 206 billion with an investment opportunity of 192 billion for this we will require not one but multiple ev hubs karnataka has a head start with mahindra electric ather sun mobility and lots of other startups and tech centres of ev companies says mainithe ev manufacturing ecosystem works a bit different from traditional auto companies evs are much simpler to assemble so oems will choose to assemble them in a distributed fashionmicromini factories to reduce logistics cost and benefit from several states sops says amitabh saran ceo of altigreen propulsion labs regional hubs will be created closer to electronics and electrical component manufacturers as well says saranthe good news is tns components giants are stepping up their ev game lucastvs which is setting up a rs 2500crore factory near chennai with usbased 24m technologies is also looking to invest in charging infrastructure the company which has also bid for the acc battery storage pli scheme is evaluating how large the pilot will be and is in touch with customers in the ev and energy storage space says arvind balaji md lucastvsseveral tnbased players have applied for the pli scheme and are awaiting niti aayogs nod said a government source this say ev experts is critical because tn will need to scale up from mechanical to electrical electronics parts competence if it wants to retain its edge in ev investments