Informal scrap yards, paperwork gaps thwarting vehicle scrappage policy: Auto OEMs

…for domestic recycling, MS Anand Kumar, AVP and Head at TVS Motor Company, revealed that vehicles manufactured in India between 2005 and 2023 hold an estimated 98 million tonnes of recoverable steel. AI opportunity “ AI has an opportunity in the Indian vehicle scrappage context. It is a fragmented industry with thousands of players, largely informal, and there is a large pool of vehicles on the roads that needs to be replaced ,” said Prasad Phadke, Senior General Manager at Tata Motors Ltd. Despite scaling infrastructure — such as Tata Motors’ ‘Rewire’ network operating around 12 facilities with a capacity exceeding 2,00,000 dismantlings…

…components, and identify material compositions to unlock site efficiencies. Senthilkumaran Varatharajan, Senior General Manager at Mahindra & Mahindra, cautioned that circularity must begin on the drawing board. “ If your product design does not have the sustainability element built into it, you have a disaster at hand when it comes to end-of-life ,” Varatharajan said. He highlighted that data harvested by AI during dismantling — such as corrosion rates, reusable parts, and hazardous substances like brominated polymers or chromium — must be fed back into OEM…