BOSEMAN (Part III)

Bose considers himself a lucky man to be at Tata Motors, when the architecture of their cars was being defined. According to him, a lot depends on knowing right at the beginning of the project whether the product is going to be a hatchback, a sedan, a mini-van or an SUV and to be able to figure out how many things one can do based on the architecture. What that involves is knowing, where the wheels come, what the wheelbase will be, what the vision angle is – from where the person is sitting, and many such finer aspects, all of which go into defining the architecture of the car. “You get any of this wrong and you’ve had it! You’re stuck with it for the next 14-15 years! Because one architecture gives you at least two generations of products – seven years, seven years. So, If I make an architecture in 2020, I’m not changing it until 2035, and so, you have got to know, that in this time, if maybe, gasoline disappears totally, where do the batteries go? You have to, in the architecture, already plan the place for it, so that when the batteries become a certain