/ A TREE WITH EVERY BATTERY · SINCE 2017
Plant it. Water it. Send us the photo.
Every Microtex traction battery sold in India leaves our works with a tree sapling packed beside it. The battery will work for five, six, seven years and then come back to us for recycling. The tree you plant today will still be growing when it does. This page tells you what the sapling is, how to plant it in ten minutes, and where to send the one photograph we ask for in return.
5,173 trees supplied since 2017 — One sapling with every traction battery — Ten minutes to plant, one photo to send
Why a battery comes with a tree
A battery maker cannot plant a forest. Five thousand customers can. Since 2017 we have sent a sapling with every traction battery sold in India, and our customers have planted them in factory compounds, along warehouse boundaries, outside security cabins and beside canteens — 5,173 trees so far (to October 2026), one battery at a time — every one numbered in the Microtex Tree Register. We do not dress this up as a carbon claim. It is a habit: when we send a working machine into the world, we send something living with it, and we ask the people who receive it to give that living thing ten minutes and a bucket of water a week.
Which tree is in your crate
The nursery gives us one of two trumpet trees, both chosen because they are hardy, need almost no care after the first two years, and flower in the dry months when little else does. Saplings carry no flowers, so here is how to tell them apart later — and what to look forward to.
Golden Trumpet — Tabebuia argentea
Also called Golden Bells or the silver trumpet tree, for its pale, silvery leaves. A medium tree — about 30–35 feet tall with a 20-foot spread — that covers itself in bright yellow flowers around February to April, often on bare branches, so the whole canopy turns gold. Tolerates heat and poor soil; wants sun.
Pink Trumpet — Tabebuia rosea
The pink-to-lilac trumpet tree that lines so many Bengaluru avenues — the one most nurseries prefer to supply. A larger tree in time, with a broad shady crown, and a mass of pink-purple flowers in the first months of the year, usually before the new leaves. Fast-growing once established; give it room.
How to plant it — ten minutes, once
- Plant it this week. A sapling left in its bag for a month is a sapling lost. Keep the soil ball moist until it goes in the ground.
- Choose a sunny spot in open soil, at least 3 metres from walls, drains, paving and overhead cables — both trees spread.
- Dig a hole about 45 cm deep and wide. Set the sapling in with its soil ball intact — do not shake the roots loose — fill back, press the soil firm and water generously on the first day.
- Stake it loosely if the site is windy, and keep goats, cattle and vehicles off it for the first year. A simple fence of three sticks is enough.
- One bucket of water a week for two years. After that it looks after itself. That is the only maintenance it will ever ask for.
- Give it to a person, not a department. The security guard, the gardener, the supervisor who walks past that spot every morning. A tree with a name beside it gets watered.
Send us the photo
One photograph of the planted sapling — with the people who planted it, if they are willing. The quickest way is WhatsApp: tap the button, add your company name, attach the photo. Or use the form below. Every tree we receive goes into the gallery on this page with your company’s name beside it, and Ravi reads every message himself.
Or upload it here:
The trees so far
Planted by Microtex customers across India. Each one began as a sapling packed in a battery crate. Yours is next.
Two minutes more: tell others
Microtex is a family company, fifty-seven years old, and we grow the way the trees do — slowly, by word of mouth. If the battery and the sapling have been worth your time, a short Google review helps the next buyer find us more than any advertisement could. Thank you.
Thank you for the tree.
This programme is a personal request from Ravi Govindan, Chairman & Managing Director — the sapling is a gift, and the photo is the only thing we ask back. Questions about your battery go to our engineers; questions about your tree can come straight to him.