Tata Marcopolo

Tata Marcopolo Motors Ltd.
Joint venture
Industry Automotive
Founded 2008 (2008)
Headquarters Dharwad, India
Products Fully built buses and coaches
Parent Tata Motors (51%)
Marcopolo S.A. (49%)
A Tata Marcopolo bus in Chandigarh, India.

Tata Marcopolo (officially Tata Marcopolo Motors Ltd.) is a bus and coach manufacturing company headquartered in Dharwad, India and a joint venture between Tata Motors and Marcopolo S.A..

Operations

The primary bus manufacturing and building unit started in Lucknow, with an output of 25 buses per day. A second production facility is at Dharwad, Karnataka, whose output is 70 buses per day. Currently it has doubled its production and become the largest unit in the world.

Sales

Tata Marcopolo products are being used or inducted in several Indian cities as part of the local transports fleet like Navi Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Mysore, Kolkata, Chennai, Lucknow, Kanpur, Chandigarh, Pune, South Kanpur, Kochi, Madurai, Naya Raipur, Hyderabad, Thane, Trivandrum, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Amritsar Amravati etc. It is a low-floor bus with both air conditioned and non air conditioned variants available.

Fires

There has been some issues with reliability, and a number of buses catching fire with following news stories and reasons such as, lack of maintenance and poor roads being cited, and possible electrical shorts. Most reports are inconclusive, however it appears following increased checking the issue may now be under control.

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