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Kia’s Big India Bet: 4 Lakh Cars, 43% Electrified by 2030

By Ketan Thakkar & Saptarishi Mondal calendar11 Apr 2025

As part of Plan S 2030, India will be the fastest-growing market for the South Korean specialists. The company expects...

Bosch aims to double India contribution to global mobility biz by 2030

By Ketan Thakkar calendar11 Apr 2025

While India presently contributes 5% to Bosch's global mobility business, with a strong 3x-4x growth anticipation in t...

Global Trade Tensions Are Temporary, Businesses Will Find New Normal: Mercedes-Benz India

By Darshan Nakhwa and Ketan Thakkar calendar10 Apr 2025

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Mercedes-Benz India, Santosh Iyer expressed hope that the situation w...

India’s Luxury Car Market Leads EV Adoption, Outpacing Mass Segment: Mercedes-Benz India

By Darshan Nakhwa and Ketan Thakkar calendar10 Apr 2025

Of the 51,000 luxury cars sold in the last financial year at an industry level, nearly 4,500 units were EVs. In compar...

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CNG Surges Ahead Of Diesel

By Ketan Thakkar & Ashutosh Radhey Shyam calendar10 Apr 2025

With lower costs and an expanding retail network, CNG passenger vehicle sales have overtaken diesel for the first time...

DICV Appoints Rajiv Chaturvedi President and Chief Business Officer

By Ketan Thakkar and Shahkar Abidi calendar07 Apr 2025

Chaturvedi spent five years at Hyundai Construction Equipment India, leading sales, after-sales, and parts distributio...

Kia India Enters a Phase of Correction, Revenues and Profits fall in FY-24

By Ketan Thakkar & Ashutosh Radhey Shyam calendar06 Apr 2025

Revenue and profit for FY-24 fall for the first time since COVID-19; tax and regulatory headwinds add pressure to core...

“Tax the Emissions, Not the Engine”: A Pragmatic Pitch for India’s Auto Sector from Toyota Kirloskar’s Vikram Gulati

By Ketan Thakkar and Prerna Lidhoo calendar05 Apr 2025

Toyota Kirloskar’s Vikram Gulati makes a case for outcome-based taxation to simplify India’s mobility transition and a...

“Software Is India’s EV Superpower”: R Velusamy on Building the Next-Gen Mobility Ecosystem

By Prerna Lidhoo and Ketan Thakkar calendar05 Apr 2025

At the Future Powertrain Conclave, Mahindra’s R&D head makes a strong case for why the future of mobility is software-...

Exclusive: Tata AutoComp Eyes Aggressive Inorganic Growth as Global Expansion Accelerates

By Ketan Thakkar and Ashutosh Radhey Shyam calendar05 Apr 2025

The company is in talks with several potential partners for more acquisitions in the future.