JSW MG Motor India is investing ₹3,500 crore to double annual capacity to 2.2 lakh vehicles by January 2028 as it races towards record sales of 95,000-one lakh units in FY27, up from about 71,000 last year, and rolls out more electric and hybrid models to sustain annual volume growth of 35-40 per cent.“We want to continue to grow our volumes between 35 per cent and 40 per cent CAGR,” said Parth Jindal, scion of the JSW Group and Director, JSW MG Motor India. Higher localisation, he said, would be critical to turning the automaker profitable and funding its next leg of growth.The ₹3,500-crore programme will increase capacity at MG’s Halol plant from 1.1 lakh vehicles currently to 1.6 lakh by March 2027 and 2.2 lakh by January 2028. Vendors are investing another ₹2,500 crore, taking the broader investment being mobilised around MG’s expansion to about ₹6,000 crore.Room for expansionThe expansion comes as production rather than demand becomes MG’s immediate constraint. Halol is running three shifts around the clock, while plant headcount has risen 50 per cent in six months. Monthly output has climbed from about 8,000 vehicles a few months ago to 9,000 last month and is approaching 9,500, with MG aiming to progressively raise it to 12,000 units.“We are seeing no demand issues. The issue is we need to just supply, just ramp up our supplies,” Jindal said.There is room for considerably more expansion. The existing Halol site can eventually accommodate about four lakh vehicles annually, allowing MG to grow there for another three-four years without another factory. Jindal said a new location could be considered once volumes move beyond roughly 2.5 lakh units.Localisation is the other part of MG’s push for scale. The company expects the Windsor and the newly-launched Hector Tomahawk to reach about 70 per cent local content by end-2027, with localisation increasing by 2-3 percentage points a month. Battery cells, rare-earth magnets and some electronics remain key exceptions.Plans to manufacture LFP battery cells locally are on hold until the group secures a technology partner, although its cell-to-pack facilities have been commissioned.Widening the portfolioThe extra capacity will underpin a wider product offensive. Another model will join MG Select, its luxury new-energy channel, this calendar year, while the ZS EV and Astor are due for refreshes. The Windsor remains MG’s volume workhorse, while Jindal identified ₹10-15 lakh as a white space the company intends to fill as capacity expands.For now, constrained capacity is pushing MG towards higher-value vehicles. Its latest launch, the Hector Tomahawk, starts at ₹13.99 lakh with Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) for the EV and ₹21.79 lakh for the plug-in hybrid, against outright prices of ₹19.49 lakh and ₹25.69 lakh, respectively.Anurag Mehrotra, Managing Director, JSW MG Motor India, said the PHEV is aimed at higher-mileage customers who want electric running for everyday use without sacrificing long-distance flexibility. It offers more than 115 km of electric-only range and over 1,100 km combined, while the pure EV has a claimed 517-km range.JSW MG Motor is also evaluating an extended-range EV as its flexible ADAPT architecture allows it to pursue multiple new-energy technologies rather than bet on a single powertrain.Published on August 26, 2026