Articles by: Ashish Bhatia

Staying ahead

Staying ahead

Article by: Staying ahead Q & A : Ravi Pisharody, Executive Director — Commercial Vehicles, Tata Motors Interview by : Bhushan Mhapralkar Q. What growth will the CV industry achieve? A. We are seeing more of what we saw last year. M&HCV sales continue to grow at 20-25 per cent, driven by cargo. Cargo M&HCVs are growing at 30 per cent[Read More…]

by October 29, 2015 INTERVIEW
Frugal Tech

Frugal Tech

Q & A Vinod Aggarwal, Chief Executive Officer, VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd. Interview by : Anirudh Raheja Q. M&HCV sales have been growing. LCVs continues to drag. What do you foresee? A. It is true that the overall heavy-duty segment (16-tonne and above) is doing well. If you drill down further to haulage, and construction and mining trucks, the haulage segment[Read More…]

by October 29, 2015 INTERVIEW
Vodafone to provide M2M services to JCB India

Vodafone to provide M2M services to JCB India

Vodafone India’s enterprise division, Vodafone Business Services (VBS), has announced a strategic technology partnership with JCB India. VBS will provide Machine-To-Machine (M2M) services and power JCB India’s LiveLink, a telematics system that allows remote monitoring of JCB’s construction equipment. LiveLink will help track operation (including fuel reporting), security (tracking the location of operation and receive tow-away alerts), and service (mapping[Read More…]

by October 29, 2015 News
JCB engines breach the 100,000th mark

JCB engines breach the 100,000th mark

JCB has rolled out the 100,000th engine from its Ballabgarh plant. It took five years for the company to produce these many engines of the ecoMax series. Over the years, the ecoMax series has earned a name for fuel efficiency, reliability and productivity. Three engines, naturally aspirated, turbocharged and electronically governed, are produced under the ecoMax series, and have a[Read More…]

by October 27, 2015 News