Tweet Ashok Leyland has announced the expansion of Ras Al Khaimah plant in the UAE, and the setting up of a design and service training centre. The capacity expansion will enable the facility to turn out 20 buses per day from the current capacity of 12 buses per day. Done at an investment of USD 10 million, and in what[Read More…]

Tweet Putting out a big display at the Auto Expo 2016 components show, Elofic Industries, which specialises into the manufacture of automotive air and oil filtration solutions, is set to drive growth through expansion and diversification. The company, catering to the needs of OEMs like Tata Motors, Mahindra and Maruti Suzuki, is planning to set up a greenfield facility in[Read More…]

Tweet Ola has launched a bike taxi service at Bangalore. Claimed to offer a fare as low as Rs.2 per km (minimum fare is Rs.30 with Rs.2 charged per km and one Rupee per minute of trip time), the bike taxi service may find many takers considering Bangalore’s traffic congestion. Helping users to get where they want to be in[Read More…]

Tweet As India gets on the hybrid and electric bandwagon under the FAME programme, in UK, a revolutionary low-carbon technology company for the truck and bus industry, Charge R&D Ltd., has claimed to have developed a modular truck and bus diesel (electric) hybrid driveline that would revolutionise the CV sector. Close to being ‘production’ ready according to Glenn Saint who[Read More…]