Scientific and Industrial Testing And Research Centre (Si'Tarc) said via a press release that an electric vehicle (EV)motor manufacturing cluster and a common facility centre for electric vehicle motor development and testing will be established in Coimbatore with the support of the Tamil Nadu government.

These facilities, according to Si'Tarc will come up under the Micro Cluster Development Programme.

Further, the Si'Tarc will identify potential products such as submersible slurry pump-sets and motors with controller for electric vehicles and take up research projects for the benefit of the of MSMES that want to supply to the automobile sector.