Hyundai Motor India MD and CEO Tarun Garg wants the country's auto industry to think beyond exporting finished cars. His argument is that the next step should be exporting the platforms, software, engineering, components and complete mobility systems that sit behind those cars. That sounds abstract until you look at what Hyundai already exports from here. The company shipped 1,90,125 vehicles in FY2025-26, up 16.4 per cent year on year. In July 2026 alone, exports reached 21,150 units, up 31.4 per cent and the company's highest monthly export figure in more than 100 months. Hyundai says it has cumulatively exported more than 3.9 million vehicles from India to about 150 countries. A modern car is no longer only an engine, gearbox and body assembled in a factory. A vehicle platform can include the basic architecture, electrical and electronic systems, battery layout, power electronics, software, connected services, testing methods and the engineering knowledge required to adapt all of that to different markets. Hyundai's own cars show how much of the value has moved into these systems. Its Bluelink connected-car ecosystem is powered by about 1.2 million lines of code. More than 8 lakh connected Hyundai cars are already on the road, and connected technology now reaches about 20 per cent of its portfolio, compared with roughly 4 per cent when Bluelink arrived in 2019. The software supports more than 70 connected functions and over 450 voice commands across five languages. Hyundai has also moved from basic remote functions to over-the-air map updates and controller OTA updates through its newer Connected Car Navigation Cockpit. That is exactly the type of capability Garg is talking about when he says software and technology can become export products in their own right. The same logic applies to electric cars. Hyundai has already set up a