Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd will be ready for hybrid cars if customers start showing interest in this clean technology, according to the company’s managing director and CEO Shailesh Chandra.

“Tata Motors will be proactive on electrification, reactive on hybrids if the need arises,” Chandra said in a media conference call after the Tata group-owned carmaker announced its second-quarter earnings. Advertisement

"We will study the market more from a competitiveness perspective. If we see that in certain segments a diesel car is becoming comparable to a hybrid car and whether there are consumers who are showing interest in this clean technology, basis the need of competitiveness, we will look at it," he added.

Chandra, however, did not disclose the segments where the automaker might

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