Autocar Professional - 1st October 2021
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Autocar Professional’s October 1 issue This 64-page issue takes you through corporate boardrooms, the strategies, game-plan and touches upon the most striking developments underway as the mobility industry progresses through one of its biggest evolution phases after perhaps horses gave way to cars. Ford has taken the exit route but what happens to its plants in Sanand and Chennai? Our cover story analyses the situation. Yamaha India Motor Group has put together a strategically planned product portfolio for the Indian market. We speak to Chairman Motofumi Shitara. We also engage with Satyakam Arya, MD and CEO of Daimler India CV to find out how the pandemic helped the CV major make its costing structure better. Meanwhile, ZF intends to implement a multi-pronged strategy in its new plans for India. We lay bare the game-plan. Mega EV Forum End-September saw Autocar Professional host a mega 3-day EV forum where the captains of the industry, ecosystem stakeholders and government representatives put forth their views on role of EVs as the protagonist in the race to net zero. We have a comprehensive 10-page report. R&D Special Our annual R&D Special is a cracker. We have an exclusive interaction with young Team Avishkar comprising of engineers at the Centre for Innovation in IIT Madras, who bagged the ‘Most Scalable Design Award’ for their hyperloop pod Garv at the European Hyperloop Week. We also visit -J&K Tyre’s Raghupati Singhania Centre of Excellence which is augmenting its testing infrastructure ahead of the labelling norms due in October. And we reveal Pune-based HumSafer Foundation’s innovative App that is helping truck drivers develop safe driving habits.
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Spain's Fersa Group invests in India-based Delux Bearings
Besides theRs100 croreinvestment, the Indian company gets access toadvanced technologies and bearings with arange of applications that willhelpinits global growth strategy, writes Manobhava Baruah.
Tata Autocomp to open compact dual-clutch transmission plant
Amidthe country’s growing need for personal mobility with easy manoeuvrability, comes the demand for vehicles with automatic transmission. Tata AutoCompisready tomovein writes Shruti Mishra.
Pankaj Munjal-backed Hero Motors raises equity from GEF Cap
The company willinvest Rs1,500 crore over thenextthree years andit expects 60 percent ofits turnover to come fromelectric vehicle parts. Itaims to becomea Global EV Solutions Company from India
New age thermoplastics for next-generation EV batteries
Saudi-based global materials major SABIChas developed cutting edgein fire-resistant polymers and flame-retardant materials that comply with various EV battery safety standards across the world.
Switch Mobility to meet growing e-bus demand with fresh capex
Oncourse for abillion-dollar business, the company is exploringa possibility of operating satellite factories across the country to serve different geographies, write ShahkarAbidi and Ketan Thakkar.
Kia India to invest Rs 2,000 crore in EVS, to introduce new e-RV in 2025
New investmentto drive R&D, infrastructure development and manufacturing capabilities. The company willlocally produce EVsin India with possibility of exports as well, writes Mayank Dhingra.
\"The government has given enough time for indigenisation but the industry has not taken it seriously'
Amitabh Saran, Founder and CEO, Altigreen, shares his views on problems inthe EV industry and battery localisation solutions with Amit Vijay M.
TATA MOTORS SEES ONE INTWO CARS SOLDAS EVS BY 2030
The company aims to offer wider choices withnew EVs that may straddle a pricebracket of Rs20to 40lakhinthe coming years, writes Ketan Thakkar.
MG Motor India in expansion drive, to invest $100 million
The investment willbe usedtoramp up existing production capacity from1.2to1.4-15lakh units per annum atthe automaker's Halol plantin Gujarat, writes Ketan Thakkar.
\"Technology and its multiplier effect are driving business transformations and customer experiences'
Technical Centre India is one of Continental’s largest research and development centres in the world, andasa Centre of Competence’ it also develops customised products for the BRIC countries.
