Autocar Professional Magazine - July 15, 2019

In this issue

As the buzz about EVs gets louder in the Indian market and with the Union Budget giving a new charge to e-mobility, OEMs are rejigging their new product plans.

While Hyundai has launched the Kona, India’s first long-range electric SUV with a 452km travel range, the big news is of the Korean carmaker’s Indian and Korean R&D centres developing an India-specific ‘small EV’. Our cover story reveals all.

Be it the IC industry, EV manufacturing or production of components, companies are looking at new ways and methodologies to optimise production. Autocar Professional’s Smart Manufacturing Conclave saw experts detail how digitalisation can enable speedy transformation in products and processes.

The first week of July saw two global majors – Continental and ZF – hold their Technology Day in Hanover and Dresden respectively. Our first-hand reports on both reveal the innovation factories.

The Interview of the Fortnight is with Kristin Trecker, Senior Vice-President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Visteon. She speaks on the challenges involved in spotting the right talent, motivating and providing a platform for employees for self-development, and India’s fast-growing role in Visteon’s global scheme of things.

The first fortnight of July was packed with news-making events starting with the Union Budget, rollout of Scania India’s new BS VI truck, DICV’s BS VI BharatBenz 5528TT and ending with TVS launching India’s first ethanol-powered motorcycle – the Apache RTR 200 Fi E100. It’s all there in this issue.