PM Modi flags off Maruti Suzuki e-Vitara

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with President of Suzuki Motors Toshihiro Suzuki during a flagging off ceremony of Maruti Suzuki's first electric vehicle e-Vitara

PM Modi flagged off the e-Vitara from the Hansalpur manufacturing facility, in Ahmedabad district of Gujarat.

PM Modi with President of Suzuki Motors Toshihiro Suzuki and Maruti Suzuki India MD and CEO Hisashi Takeuchi

Modi was joined by Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel and others at Maruti Suzuki's Hansalpur manufacturing facility

Suzuki Motor Corporation announced it will invest ₹70,000 crore in the next five to six years in India

Modi also kicked off exports of e-Vitara to 100 countries and inaugurated the production of lithium-ion battery cells for electric vehicles at the facility