From scooters to silent EVs: How the TVS family built a mobility empire without anyone noticing

Walk into this Hosur factory and you will find the rhythmic hum of machinery fills the air. A brand new TVS iQube floats off the fabrication line, its electric engine silent where you once could hear the two-stroke bikes roar.

Just a short walk down the passage, engineers quietly observe digital dashboards that trace each vehicle’s production and quality in real time.

In another warehouse, automated carts ferry parcels for e-commerce consumers, a 360 degree change from the time when TVS’s impact seldom expanded beyond Indian borders.

The TVS Group , now an expansive multinational, traces its roots back over a century. What began as a simple family business in 1911 by T. V. Sundaram Iyengar, manufacturing components for bicycles and motorcycles, has grown into a complex kingdom. Yet, t