Switch of name for Optare

摘要

Majority owner Ashok Leyland has renamed part of Optare as Switch Mobility and will eventually phase out the Optare brand name when it ceases building diesel-engined buses. The Indian parent company, part of the Hinduja Group and its home country's second largest bus and truck manufacturer, says this is part of a plan to turn the smallest of the UK's bus builders into the developer of electric vehicle platforms for buses, light commercial vehicles and personal transport pods for world markets, starting in continental Europe and India.