World’s largest two-wheeler manufacturer, Hero MotoCorp, which is gearing up to disrupt the electric two-wheeler segment, has announced the appointment of Swadesh Srivastava as Head of Emerging Mobility Business Unit (EMBU), which is set for the launch of the first EV product by March 2022.
Swadesh joined recently and has worked with tech-enabled companies such as Apple, Intel, Ola Electric and Flipkart, and has received his PhD & MS from the University of Minnesota and BTech from IIT-Madras.
The company’s electric vehicles (EV) project is progressing as per plans, and the Chittoor manufacturing facility in Andhra Pradesh is gearing up to produce the green products.
The teams at Hero MotoCorp are focused on working across the entire EV eco-system, such as battery technology and battery management systems, powertrain, telematics, analytics and diagnostics and charging infrastructure, the company said in a press release.