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Fledgling mobility firm will develop both two and four-wheeled vehicles at the Coventry site

Indian EV maker Ola Electric will invest £100 million in an engineering and vehicle-design centre in the UK.

The fledgling firm described the Ola Futurefoundry site in Coventry as “a global hub for the best automotive design and engineering talent in the world”.

Employees at the site will work with the design and engineering teams at Ola headquarters in Bangalore, India.

It will work on two-wheel and four-wheel vehicle design; advanced high-performance automotive engineering; digital and physical modelling; and research and development of new vehicle energy systems, including cell technologies.

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