Text: Bhargav TS Automotive industry in India is becoming more demanding in terms of lighting solutions. Looking in to the young population and increasing buying capacity of the end users, vehicle manufactures are demanding more in terms of functional and aesthetic contents of the lamps. In India trend is towards the migration from conventional bulb type to LEDs and projectors.[Read More…]
Text : Bhargav TS The global automotive lighting market is growing substantially in terms of volumes and technology upgradation. The segment is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 7.95% in between 2015 to 2020. Increasing vehicle sales and production and technological advancements triggered by growing safety concerns and stringent lighting regulations are the key drivers of the automotive lighting[Read More…]
Torbjorn Holmstrom, Chief Technology Officer, Volvo Group and Executive Vice President, Volvo Group Trucks Technology spoke to Bhushan Mhapralkar on the future technologies and their plans to bring global technologies to the Indian market. Edited excerpts: Q: From a technological view point, where does India figure in Volvo’s scheme of things? Holmstrom: We came to India in 1996. I was[Read More…]
Text: Bhargav TS TVS Logistics, third party logistics (3PL) service provider, has acquired Australia-based Transtar International Freight, through its JV arm TVS Asianics Supply Chain Solutions. The Madurai headquartered TVS Logistics will invest Rs 200 crore towards acquiring majority stake and to grow the business. With this deal TVS Logistics enter into Australia and covered most of the region in[Read More…]
Axalta Coating Systems is renewing its focus on India by doubling the production capacity and increasing OEM activity Text: Bhushan Mhapralkar The Carlyle Group acquired Dupont’s Performance Coatings business in February 2013 for USD 4.9 billion and rechristened it as Axalta Coating Systems. The Indian operations, as part of the global acquisition, also changed their name to Axalta. Positioning itself[Read More…]
By Ashish Gulati, Country Manager, Telit India A car is an electronic machine and there are several apps that can be written for connected car scenarios helping car owners. OEMs and fleet operators can reap the benefits of IoT by using these apps. The main ingredient of such an IoT recipe would be the connectivity of the car and services[Read More…]
Yamaha Motor has organised free service camps for those two-wheelers which are affected in the recent heavy rains and floods which hit Tamil Nadu. Ravinder Singh, Vice President, Strategy and Planning, Yamaha Motor India Sales Pvt. Ltd. said, “The owners of two-wheelers affected in Chennai, Kanchipuram, Thiruvallur and Cuddalore districts due to heavy rains flooding several areas of Tamil Nadu[Read More…]
Hyundai Motor India Ltd, the country’s second largest car manufacturer and the largest passenger car exporter has won the most coveted Indian Car of the Year 2016 (ICOTY) award for the CRETA. As the most loved and trusted car manufacturer in India, Hyundai Motor India wins 3 ICOTY’s successively for its products: CRETA, Elite i20 and Grand i10 as ICOTY[Read More…]
Jaguar Land Rover India (JLR India) has announced the launch of its new smartphone integration platform, InControl Apps, which has been developed in conjunction with Bosch. The InControl Apps platform transfers the interface from the phone to the in-car infotainment touch-screen, to allow users access to popular apps. Jaguar Land Rover and Bosch have worked closely with leading third party[Read More…]
Mentor Graphics Corporation has announced the latest release of its leading general purpose, front-loading computational fluid dynamics (CFD) FloEFD solution offering greater accuracy and user productivity. Updated features in this new version include improved mesh handling, an enhanced transient solver, a robust EDA interface, and an interface to Abaqus Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software for stress analysis. Engineers and specialists[Read More…]
