The carmaker is leveraging its extensive vendor base to facilitate smooth supply of child parts and skilled manpower, ensure availability of air-compressors and organise import of a critical component zeolite to increase production at their facilities.
Oil companies, sugar mills work in sync to put India’s ethanol blending programme on track
May 23, 2021
318 crore litres of ethanol have been contracted for supply during the current ethanol year
India seems to be on track with its ambitious plan to blend up to 20 per cent ethanol in petrol. In April, public sector oil refiners-cum-retailers have been able to achieve an ethanol blending of 7.63 per cent at the national level. In fact, as many as 11 States across the country have managed to touch 10 per cent blending.
A party pooper
According to Abinash Verma, Director General of Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), till last week, 318 crore litres of ethanol have been contracted for supply during the current ethanol year (December 2020 to November 2021). Butthe recent drop in petrol consumption has been a party spoiler.
There was a car in Chandigarh (not sure which colour).
Mumbai dealership has a test drive car - about 1000 kms done. You can squeeze a great deal out of that - that s the one I was wanting to get in the first place!
But then I got a brand new one at a better price!
Mumbai has 2 dealerships, The one called VW Downtown Mumbai might also have one! There s a car at the Nagpur Dealership. There s one down South too I think. Plus many dealers might have TD cars! Going for a steal! So that s about 4 to 5 cars!
Skoda Octavia RS 245
SIAM to host 13th edition of Lecture series on Electric Vehicles
SIAM to host 13th edition of Lecture series on Electric Vehicles
MUMBAI, May 19: Auto industry Apex body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), is hosting its 13th Lecture under the aegis of SIAM’s Lecture series 2021 on Electric Vehicles in India: On-Road Safety, Operations & Maintenance on May 21 on a virtual platform.
This is in continuation with the recently organized 12th Lecture by SIAM on ‘Hybrid & Electric Vehicles in India: Development, Testing & Homologation’ in April this year under the aegis of twin lecture series on xEvs in India.
The lecture will witness in-depth presentations by industry experts on the aforementioned theme. The panel would comprise of Mr Karthick Athmanathan, Professor, IIT Madras, Mr Abhijit Mulay, General Manager, Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), Mr Pradeep Kumar, Vice President & Head (Customer Care), Ather Energy, Mr Awadhesh Jha, Vice President,
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Automobile sales, including passenger vehicles (PVs), three wheelers (3W) and two-wheelers (2W), fell more than 30%, mainly due to lock-downs and diversion of resources by auto-makers towards oxygen production amidst the second wave of coronavirus (COVID), says Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM).
In a statement, Rajesh Menon, director general of SIAM says, Supply Chain related production challenges continue with the lockdown restrictions in many parts of the country. The demand has been clearly impacted by second wave of COVID, both in terms of low consumer sentiments and closure of dealerships due to lockdown restrictions.”
According to SIAM data, sales of passenger vehicles fell by about 10.07%, compared to that in March 2021, due to various restrictions in states which have been experiencing surge in COVID cases. Sales of two-wheelers have also plummeted by 33.52 %, while three-wheelers witnessed a de-growth of 57.01 % in April compared with last