India’s automotive market is the third largest in the world. Yet, the debate continues along a familiar binary: Indian brands vs foreign technology. No carmaker in the world builds a vehicle entirely on its own.
Cells, semiconductors, software and design capability are bought, licensed or developed with partners, in India and everywhere else. So, whether a technology is Indian or foreign tells you less than it appears to. The more useful question is what happens to it after it arrives here.