Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: Tata Motors exhibits both supportive and oppositional engagement with science-aligned climate policy. Tata Motors and its subsidiary display active engagement on a range of climate regulations. While Tata Motors has broadly positive positioning on vehicle electrification in India, and has supported numerous policies to electrify the sector. However, its subsidiary, Jaguar Land Rover, has engaged negatively on several automotive policies globally, including the US light-duty GHG emission standards.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: Tata Motors has positive top-line messaging on climate policy. In an op-ed published in July 2025, the company recognized the economic necessity of responding to climate change. It also appeared to support India’s net-zero 2070 target in its 2023-24 Annual Report, released in June 2024 and a January 2024 Op-Ed from a Tata Motors executive in Autocar also supported the Paris Agreement. In an interview with the Economic Times in September 2024, a Tata Motors executive also appeared supportive of government regulation to respond to climate change in India.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: Tata Motors’ subsidiary, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), has actively engaged with vehicle GHG emissions and fuel economy standards in the US. In its July 2023 consultation response, the company appeared to advocate for lower stringency 2027-32 light- and medium-duty GHG emission standards between 2027-30 than the EPA recommended, and advocated to extend compliance flexibilities that would weaken the stringency of the regulation. In October 2023 US federal regulatory comments, Tata Motors subsidiary Jaguar Land Rover also advocated to significantly reduce the stringency of proposed Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards and pushed to delay finalizing the rule.
Regarding corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE) norms in India, the Economic Times reported comments from a Tata Motors executive in June 2024 that appeared supportive of how more ambitious future CAFE rules would promote battery electric vehicles. Other comments from a Tata Motors executive reported by the Times of India in August 2024, and the Economic Times in September 2024, similarly appeared generally supportive of more stringent CAFE norms in India.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Tata Motors has mostly positive engagement on EV policy in India, whereas its subsidiary, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), has taken negative positions on automotive climate policy in the UK and US. In India, a January 2024 Op-Ed in Autocar from a Tata Motors executive strongly supported policies to electrify transport in India, including the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (FAME) electric vehicle incentive and Production Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes. Multiple media reports from 2024 also suggested that Tata Motors supported extending India’s FAME III incentive scheme to other vehicle types. This includes four wheelers (LiveMint, April 2024) electric vehicle taxis (LiveMint, September 2024), light, medium and heavy-duty electric trucks and hydrogen-powered vehicles (TruckDekho, September 2024) and commercial electric vehicle fleets (Economic Times, November 2024). Multiple media reports in 2024 also highlight Tata Motors advocating against reducing the Goods and Services Tax on new ICE-powered hybrids in India, urging the government to instead support battery electric vehicles, including an August 2024 Times of India report.
In the UK, according to a September 2023 Autocar article, JLR publicly endorsed the government’s decision to delay the UK ICE vehicle phase-out date from 2030 to 2035. In a May 2023 UK consultation response found via FOI request, JLR appeared to support the UK’s ZEV mandate's proposed trajectory for cars but advocated for a weaker trajectory for vans. A joint letter to the UK government signed by JLR in October 2024 emphasized concerns with meeting the UK’s ZEV mandate without introducing further incentives. In the US, in a July 2023 consultation response, JLR appeared unsupportive of ambitious timelines for an EV transition.
Tata Motors appeared to support CNG, alongside battery electric vehicles, in its 2023-24 Integrated Annual Report, released in June 2024. In a January 2023 social media post, Tata Motors stated support for natural gas in the energy mix, noting that it is "greener", without clear conditions related to CCS mitigating methane emissions.
Industry Association Governance: Tata Motors does not disclose its trade association memberships in a dedicated report, and has not published a review of its alignment with its industry associations’ climate policy positions. A senior executive from Tata Motors is the Director of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, which has mostly negative positions on Indian automotive climate policy. Moreover, Tata Motors is a member of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), which has mostly positive engagement on climate policy. The interim CEO of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), a Tata Motors subsidiary, is on the board of the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA), which has both negative and positive engagement on EU climate regulations. JLR is also a member of the UK-based Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), US-based Alliance for Automotive Innovation, and the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI), which negatively engages with climate change regulations in Australia.
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the company’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q2 2025.
Additional Note: Tata Motors is headquartered in India, where InfluenceMap’s LobbyMap platform can currently only make a provisional assessment of corporate climate policy engagement, due to limited capability to access publicly available data on this issue. As it is possible that InfluenceMap is not yet able to fully capture evidence of Tata Motor’s climate policy engagement activities, these scores should be considered provisional at this time.