Building on the success of its inaugural edition of the three-day Bharat Mobility Global Expo which saw the participation of over 1,000 exhibitors, the show is all geared up for a massive expansion next year. The event, lauded by Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal as the largest ever held in India for the auto … Read more
Maruti Suzuki India is gearing up for a strong SUV push with at least six out of ten new models planned for the next three years starting FY25 being sports utility vehicles (SUVs), reinforcing the Japanese carmaker’s strong intent to sharpen focus on the vehicle body type amid a rapid shift in buyer preference. The … Read more
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, February 27, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Max Burkholder’s First Car Was A Recall Nightmare 1st Gear: Ford Recalls Its Takata Airbag Recall After setting … Read more
Chennai: Heavy commercial vehicle maker Ashok Leyland has drawn up network expansion plans in the North and Eastern parts of the country, a top company official has said. The Hinduja Group flagship company was also gearing up to launch its electric light commercial vehicles (LCVs) within the next few months. Ashok Leyland in the first … Read more
You’ve most likely noticed that there have been a hell of a lot of automotive recalls over the past decade that have impacted millions of vehicles on the roads in the U.S., some multiple times. It could leave you wondering why the hell there seems like a new major recall every single day. Well, there’s … Read more
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki, India’s top carmaker, recorded a 33% rise in fiscal third quarter net profit at ₹3,130 crore thanks to increased car sales and a shift towards higher margin-yielding sport-utility vehicles. Net sales at the maker of Grand Vitara and Fronx SUVs grew 14% to ₹31,860 crore in the three months ended December … Read more
Mumbai: Tata Motors, India’s biggest automotive company by sales, has trumped Maruti Suzuki in the market capitalization sweepstakes for the first time in nearly seven years, reflecting the increasingly robust performance for all its products that straddle both categories and national boundaries. “Tata motors has been performing well in all the segments it operates in, … Read more
In response to the deteriorating air quality in Delhi and NCR, the Delhi government has reintroduced Stage-III of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) as the air quality in the capital has worsened lately. This decision comes in the wake of a central government order banning the plying of BS-III petrol and BS-IV diesel four-wheelers … Read more
Continuing its “AI Everywhere” push, Intel announced plans to drive the company’s AI everywhere strategy into the automotive market, including a deal to acquire Silicon Mobility, a fabless silicon and software company that specialises in SoCs for intelligent electric vehicle (EV) energy management. Intel also announced a new family of AI-enhanced software-defined vehicle system-on-chips (SoCs), … Read more
All bi-fuel vehicles with flex fuel option will have to undergo tests for both gaseous pollutants as well as particulate mass and number when seeking vehicle type approval under BS VI emission norms. However, hydrogen-run vehicles will have to undergo tests only for emissions of nitrogen oxide, the ministry of road transport and highways said … Read more