As carmakers rush to build software on wheels, Pune-based KPIT go past Tata Tech

Call it the convergence of mechanical and electronic worlds. And in March 2015, Elon Musk had made it clear in as many words. Model S is not a car but a ‘sophisticated computer on wheels’, he had said. While many saw this as a threat to traditional carmakers, the New Age cars created a big-ticket business opportunity for outsourced engineering R&D (ER&D) companies years later. So much so that in the last one year, ER&D companies have