EKA Mobility Appoints Anil Baliga as President

26/09/2022 - 11:25 | Electric vehicles | IAB Team

EKA Mobility, an electric vehicles & technology company, and a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries Limited, announced the appointment of B Anil Baliga as the President.

B Anil Baliga President Eka Mobility

B Anil Baliga is a skilled business leader and an industry veteran with a rich and extensive experience of 40+ years in the automotive industry. Mr. Baliga assumed the role of President at EKA Mobility recently and will lead the electric vehicle company’s expansion. He will be reporting directly to the Founder & Chairman of EKA, Dr. Sudhir Mehta.

B Anil Baliga is the former Executive Vice President of Bus & Applications, Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles (VECV). During his tenure at VECV, Baliga was responsible for setting up the truck facility, transfer of technology, and capacity expansion. He also successfully established a bus manufacturing plant and led specific applications developed for commercial trucks in various segments at VECV.

At EKA, Mr. Baliga will be focusing on commercial electric vehicles ranging from 3-wheelers, LCV Trucks in the sub-3-ton range, a full range of buses from 9 meters to 13.5 meters, and addressing all segments of commuters. Given his expertise and experience, Mr. Baliga will closely work on installing a state-of-the-art flexible highly productive, smart & lean manufacturing unit, capable of manufacturing the complete range with a high level of relevant automation & IT integration leveraging Industry 4.0 and IoT.

Developing a range of applications to address customers segments, aftermarket with a centralized online tracking system to maximize vehicle uptime in the field, leveraging AI and diagnostics, backward integration of critical aggregates, mostly Electric to supplement cost and support the “Make in India” initiative, will be some other key areas Baliga will be actively involved in at EKA.

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