New Delhi, June 23 -- The JSW Group is developing its electric bus platform, vehicle control unit and battery pack design in-house as it seeks to own key technologies and submit more competitive bids for government contracts that make the crux of the business in India, according to an executive and company disclosures.

The technologies are being developed through the group's Pune research and development centre and JSW Energy and it will underpin buses to be built at the group's upcoming 90-acre manufacturing facility in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, earlier known as Aurangabad, in Maharashtra, according to a company spokesperson. While there is no committed date for the start of its operations, industry experts see it taking off within a ...