New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- Maruti Suzuki's electric vehicle (EV) push in India is set to take a little longer to gather pace. The country's largest carmaker expects its capacity constraints to ease over the next three to four months, pushing the domestic ramp-up of EVs into 2027, even as the country sees their sales picking up and rivals Tata Motors PV and Mahindra & Mahindra building on their early lead.

The company has delayed scaling up of domestic EV capacity earlier as well. On 1 June it had said the ramp-up was likely post September with the EV production line at Hansalpur, Gujarat, coming up. Prior to this, the initial expectation was July.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers' (Siam) an...