In our journey of Partnering Prosperity with all stakeholders, we have crossed many milestones and celebrated many achievements.

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1948

The Goodearth Company is founded, a pioneer in importing and selling tractors in India.

1959-60

Eicher Tractor Corporation of India Private Limited rolls out India’s first indigenously manufactured tractor from its Faridabad plant.

1982

Eicher Motors Limited forms a joint venture with Japan’s Mitsubishi Motors Corporation to manufacture light commercial vehicles.

1994

Eicher redefines the medium duty truck landscape with path breaking 9-tonne and 12-tonne products.

2002

Eicher Motors ventures into the high- potential heavy duty segment and launches the 16-tonne Jumbo truck.

2008

The Volvo Group and Eicher Motors come together in a 50-50 joint venture to establish VE Commercial Vehicles Limited.

2010

VE Series of Eicher Heavy Duty trucks launched redefining the commercial vehicle space in India.

2012

VE Commercial Vehicles Limited wins the prestigious CV Maker of the Year award (Apollo CV Awards).

New Engineering Component plant, Bus Body plant, LMD line, Cab plant & Paint Shop set up at Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh.

2013

Unveiling the Future of Indian Trucking with Eicher’s all-new Pro series of trucks and buses.

Production starts at India's first Euro 6 commercial vehicles’ engine manufacturing plant at Pithampur.

Addition of two new manufacturing facilities: Bus body plant at Baggad and Gear manufacturing plant unit II at Dewas.

2014

Inauguration of Eicher Retail Excellence Center-ProXcellence Academy.

2015

Inauguration of 'Customer Experience Center' and 'Vehicle Display Center' at Pithampur plant.

2016

Launch of vehicles with CNG engine technology.

Entry into sub 5 Tonne segment with launch of Eicher Pro 1049.

2017

Launch of indigenously developed Automated Manual Transmission technology.

Successful technology transfer for flagship HD product Pro 8000 by Volvo Group to Eicher for manufacturing at Pithampur Plant.

Successful introduction of BSIV product range with i3EGR and SCR technology - Pro 5000 series launch.

2018

Foray into zero-emission fully Electric bus.

Launch of India's first 7 Speed technology in Light and Medium Duty Pro series trucks.

10 years of Driving Modernization

Entry into Indonesian market with UD trucks.

2019

India's first BS-VI Commercial Vehicles range unveiled - Pro 2000 Series of light & medium duty trucks.

2020

Inauguration of India’s first Uptime Centre with 24x7 service support & remote diagnostics.

Unveiling of BSVI Range with Innovative EUTECH6 Solution.

Eicher becomes the first company to offer 100% connected vehicles in the commercial vehicle industry in India.

Volvo Buses India integrates with VECV

Production starts at state of the art Bhopal plant built with Industry 4.0 principles of a connected factory.

2021

Eicher establishes new standard in intercity luxury bus travel with new coach & sleeper platform.

Eicher introduces My Eicher, a holistic fleet Management app.

2022

Volvo Buses India launches Volvo 9600 platform, inspired by award-winning European design

2023

Celebrating 15 Years of Driving Modernization