India engineers are also contributing to Ford’s electrification strategy, developing the intelligence around a new common EV platform, the global executive said. The India centre is the largest for us outside of the US, and it has pretty much every business function across the company. Do leaders here in Chennai play a key role in Ford’s global decisions? We are developing vehicle software here that will go into our vehicles globally. India has also been playing a key role for some time now in our electrification journey.

Source: The Hindu February 26, 2026 07:33 UTC