Ashok Leyland plans full capacity utilisation of its facility at Hosur for Dost, the light commercial vehicle (LCV) under the joint venture with Nissan, by next fiscal year. The LCV has reached sales of around 2,800 units a month. Around 20,479 units of Dost had been marketed across eight states in the country so far.

The sales is growing according to the demand and the production capacity of 55,000 units a year, which the company set up at Hosur facility, would be completely utilised by the next fiscal year.

Ashok Leyland along with Nissan is planning to set up a greenfield facility to manufacture Dost at Pillaipakkam in Tamil Nadu. It has received around 280 acres at Pillaipakkam from the government, and it would take 2-2.5 years to bring up the greenfield facility.