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.