A tour of Tata's Electric Mobility plant at Sanand, Gujarat

The plant is about an hour's drive from Ahmedabad. It is spread across 460 acres and houses the various divisions.

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Tata Passenger Electric Mobility (TPEM), a unit of Tata Motors, acquired the erstwhile Ford Motor Company manufacturing plant at Sanand, Gujarat, in January 2023. The plant has undergone significant re-tooling and now produces one of Tata Motors' blockbuster product, the Nexon.

Ford announced its intention to exit the Indian market in 2021 as part of its global restructuring strategy. The company put several of its assets on the block. As Ford wound up its operations in the country, there was a lot of interest in the future of its manufacturing plants, especially the bigger centres such as Chennai and Sanand.

With several suitors pursuing these assets over the course many months post Ford's departure, the plant eventually was bought by Tata, with the deal being finalized on 10 January 2023.

The plant is about an hour's drive from Ahmedabad. It is spread across 460 acres and houses the various divisions:

• Press Shop
• Body Construction
• Paint Shop
• Final Assembly

Tata PEM has spent over Rs. 1,300 crore in the re-tooling of the plant, with much of this coming through upgrades to the robots and automation over each of the four divisions.

The plant's current capacity is ~3 lakh units annually, which can be scaled up to 4.2 lakh units.

Manufacturing commenced on 10 January 2024 and the new-look Tata PEM Sanand plant is now the birthplace of what has come to be one of Tata's most successful cars, the Nexon. Not just the ICE variant, but the EV as well!

Stamping / Press shop

The journey of automobile manufacture begins here... with just a sheet of steel:

Each sheet is tested thoroughly for thickness, integrity and other parameters:

Raw steel is cast into various individual body panels by dies, with the help of hydraulic presses:

Each panel then undergoes trimming..

...and is checked for conformity to design parameters with the help of several sensors:

All the manufactured panels are then stacked, ready to be sent over to the weld shop:

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