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Event Report
                AutoSCM
                Summit 2021




































         ‘Safety has to be in the design DNA’


         affirm EV industry leaders


         at AutoSCM Summit







         While EV is an idea whose time has come, industry players deliberated on how safety
         needs to be the topmost priority for OEMs in this space. With the adoption of EVs in the
         Indian ecosystem being less than one percent, there is a need for the industry to adopt
         more localization and onboard the safety aspect in all components so as to convince
         more users to switch to electric vehicles.
            Lakshmi Ajay


                utting safety as one of the   of ITLN’s ‘AutoSCM Virtual Summit’   a positive political will shown by the
                key features of EV adoption in   presented by Frankfurt Airport and   Indian government among other topics.
                India, leading industry players   World Trade Center Pune- India held on   Speaking on the safety angle, Prasad
         Pand young leaders deliberated     December 9, 2021.                   Sreeram, founder & CEO of COGOS
         upon ‘safety’- a very crucial aspect    Deliberations also touched upon the   Technologies touched upon how his
         of the value proposition offered by   life cycle and reliability of the battery   firm is developing innovations for
         Original Equipment Manufacturers   and its manufacturing, commercial   commercial vehicles including features
         (OEMs) in the newly minted and     parity, importance of sensors that   like road sensing, shock absorption,
         much talked about EV space. Many   can drive up vehicle intelligence,   insulated vehicles that can reduce the
         top industry leaders and young CEO’s   geofencing, cloud infrastructure, value   wastage of products, track and trace
         deliberated on this and other issues on   in the resale market, and the coming   once the vehicle is switched off, keeping
         the topic of ‘The automotive rEVolution   of age of the electric vehicles in lieu of   the vehicle doors and wheels locked
         – what’s in it for supply chain and   rising fuel prices and the ramping up   while the vehicle is at rest, building
         logistics industries?’ at the fifth edition   of its support infrastructure along with   modular vehicles where things can be


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