Nirmal K Minda, Chairman and Managing Director, of Uno Minda Group spoke upfront to Ashish Bhatia on the road ahead for component suppliers and the next tipping point on the horizon. Q. Is the post-pandemic recovery that accounted for a record turnover, sustainable going forward for the tier 1 suppliers like yourself? A. We faced tough times in the[Read More…]
JK Tyre inaugurated six new JK Tyre Steel Wheels-Brand shops in Northern India covering Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Anuj Kathuria, President (India), JK Tyre and Industries virtually inaugurated the Brand Shops in the presence of company officials and other guests. The newly inaugurated JK Tyre Steel Wheels-Brand Shops located in Faridabad, Alwar, Nokha, Meerut, Bundanpur and Rewari will cater to[Read More…]
Allison Transmission, designer and manufacturer of conventional and electrified vehicle propulsion solutions for tactical wheeled and tracked defence vehicles, and medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, is proud to work with Larsen and Toubro (L&T) Ltd., to provide the Allison 3040 MX TM propulsion solution for the Indian Army’s Futuristic Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV) prototype. Allison will manage engineering design, development,[Read More…]
Statiq’s Public Policy team has came up with a white paper on Skill Development in the Indian EV Sector. It has covered a vast amount of research in the automotive sector: employment potential, the importance of skill development, current initiatives in India, organisation and institute-level initiatives, and global context in skill development. This paper not only covers the importance of[Read More…]
Chief Minister MK Stalin has unveiled the new electric vehicles policy – 2023 with a vision to attract Rs 50,000 crore investments in the EV sector and create 1.5 lakh new jobs by offering incentives for industries and consumers. Reimbursement of state goods and services tax (SGST), investment and turnover-based subsidy, advanced chemistry cell subsidy, electrification of public and commercial[Read More…]
BorgWarner will supply a major German vehicle manufacturer in Europe and the U.S. with innovative battery cooling plates destined for the carmaker’s next generation of electric vehicles. Compared to alternative solutions, the BorgWarner cooling plates provide cooling capacity in a more compact package with reduced weight and cost. The plate design also compensates for assembly tolerances. “We’ve collaborated with this customer[Read More…]
Where there is hardware there is software. Assembly and machine-level programming have been around for years. Prateek Pardeshi visited a leading aftermarket player to understand the change in approach today. It is well known how the low-level binary skeleton of Assembly Language Programming (ALP) coexists with Machine Level Language (MLL). The latter converts ALP using an assembler and can be[Read More…]
Apollo Tyres has developed tyres with 75 per cent sustainable materials. This is aligned with Apollo Tyres’ sustainability roadmap of increasing the usage of sustainable raw materials to 40 per cent by 2030. The concept Agriculture tyres containing 75 per cent sustainable materials, has nine featured compounding ingredients in different components of the tyres. This includes recycled rubber, sustainable carbon[Read More…]
Pilloo C.Aga – Director of GoldSeal – SaarGummi India Pvt. Ltd., a Joint Venture of Gold Seal of India & SaarGummi of Germany speaks upfront to Ashish Bhatia on the buoyant sentiment and the bold government. Q. What is the significance of the supplier industry gathering under one roof and deliberating on key issues after a three-year hiatus in the[Read More…]
Marelli has been awarded a contract to supply its Battery Management System (BMS) – a core component of electric vehicles design, also regarded as the “brain” of the battery – for the future BEV (Battery Electric Vehicles) small-medium cars of a major global carmaker, from 2026. Within the project, Marelli will provide both the hardware and the boot loader software[Read More…]
