India – Commercial vehicle manufacturer, VE Commercial Vehicles Limited (VECV) of Pithampur - the commercial vehicle manufacturing joint venture and subsidiary of Sweden’s Volvo AB and Eicher Motors Ltd of Gurugram - has revealed a new range of BS VI Eicher Pro 2000 series light-duty trucks comprising the Eicher Pro 2049¹ and Eicher Pro 2095XP². The company says USD58.82m was spent on the developing the Bharat Stage VI (BS VI) engine for the Eicher Pro 2000 series light-duty trucks – April 1, 2020 is the deadline for when new truck registrations should meet BS VI emissions standards: At present the company has not released any further details on the engine itself but has stated the USD58.82m investment has been on engine development and on further developing its engine manufacturing and testing facilities in Pithampur.

The Eicher Pro 2000 series comes with two new BSVI compliant engine platforms E474 and E494, which the company says are built to deliver best-in-class fuel efficiency and a range of power options. According to their field test, the E474 BS VI engine platform is the most fuel-efficient engine with extensive use of aluminium, plastic and other composite materials