Auto Industry

Raptee.HV, the Chennai-based electric motorcycle startup pioneering the use of electric car’s high-voltage (HV) technology in two-wheelers, has announced that it has secured strategic funding from the Technology Dev...

Business leaders, automotive bodies, researchers and analysts have all hailed the steps taken at the 56th meeting of the GST council on Sept 03 towards GST reforms.

They say it was the Osamu Suzuki magic that transformed India’s automobile industry in 1981 with the setting up of Maruti Udyog Ltd (now Maruti Suzuki India Ltd) in India. That’ not fiction, it is a fact. The man be...

The building of an electric car industry in South and Southeast Asia (SSEA) will be expensive. It will involve execution risk typical for cross-border expenditure, where entities will try to anticipate shifting poli...

India a country with one of the highest fatal road accidents should avoid going the United States (US) way of going in for more for Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) as they make the roads less safe for other small c...

JLR announced plans to accelerate its transition to become the world’s leading modern luxury car manufacturer revealing its Halewood plant, in the UK, will become an all-electric production facility and its next gen...

Pre-owned car retailing platform Spinny has acquired a 100% stake in AI-powered connected car startup Scouto. The deal will mark one of the first consolidations in the AI-powered used car solutions segment where Spi...

Ever wondered why sale of new cars has been sliding in the recent past in India? Could it be because of the increased preference among millennials and Gen Z for used cars? Young buyers, who account for 80% of buyers...

Mahindra First Choice Wheels, India’s leading multi-brand certified used car company has launched its “Edition” brand, the country’s first premium used cars franchise network.

Luxury car brand Mercedes-Benz India clocked the highest ever yearly, half-yearly and also Q4 sales in 2017. By registering record sale of 15,330 units in the January to December 2017 period, Mercedes-Benz grew its ...

The government has announced a graded duty revision on cars, as part of the GST (Goods & Service Tax) council’s rate revision. As part of this graded increase, an additional cess of 2% has been levied on mid-size c...

Mercedes-Benz India has categorically stated that the decision of the Goods and Services Tax Council to raise the cess on luxury cars from the current level of 15pc to 25pc will be a strong deterrent to the growth o...

Mahindra First Choice Wheels Ltd. (MFCWL), India’s leading multi-brand used car products and services company, has now entered the space of used premium two wheelers. The company will initially focus on the premium ...

Despite the economy looking up and the Indian car industry showing a positive growth of 14.68 in domestic sales in April 2017 at 277,602 units, five out of 16 companies have show negative sales in April 2017 as comp...

General Motors India officially announced that that it has ceased production at the Halol facility in Gujarat. With this move, the company has decided to consolidate its manufacturing at the Talegaon plant in Mahara...

Maruti Suzuki’s 600 acres of unique playground in Rohtak near Delhi in the state of Haryana has around 1400 engineers playing ball almost every day of their lives, not to win trophies for themselves, but to keep the...

Within three weeks of announcing a tie up with the PSA Peugeot Group of France , the CK Birla Group has announced that Hindustan Motors Ltd, the manufacturer of the iconic Ambassador car, has executed an agreement w...

PSA Group of France and CK Birla Group have signed joint-venture agreements to produce and sell vehicles and components in India by 2020. It was in 1976 that Citroën S.A. and Peugeot S.A. merged to form the PSA Peug...

Leading luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover of UK and part of Tata Motors group, has announced its new global ambassador Noodle, Japanese guitarist and founder member of virtual British band Gorillaz.

Luxury car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz has inaugurated the largest parts warehouse in the luxury car industry and has also set up the company’s largest retail training academy in South Asia– christened as the Mercede...

Volvo Cars and Uber are to join forces to develop next generation autonomous driving cars. The two companies have signed an agreement to establish a joint project that will develop new base vehicles that will be abl...