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EVs need regulatory charge India must put its electric vehicle transition plans in high gear Soon after US President Joe Biden took office, he passed an order for an all-electric federal vehicle fleet. Since then, leading auto manufacturers including Ford, General Motors, and Jaguar have announced ambitious targets to sell only zero-emission vehicles in the coming years. Late last year, the UK and China announced bans on selling petrol and diesel cars from 2030 and 2035 onwards respectively. While India, too, has signalled strong electric vehicle (EV) ambitions, bold policies and announcem...

Two-wheeler market leader Hero MotoCorp on Thursday said its total sales stood at 5,76,957 units in March 2021. The company had sold 3,34,647 units in March last year, when sales were "adversely impacted due to the impending transition to BS-VI from April 2020, in addition to the nationwide lockdown towards the latter half of the month due to coronavirus pandemic", Hero MotoCorp said in a statement. In financial year 2021, the auto industry witnessed significant disruptions triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, restricting customer movement. Despite these challenges, Hero MotoCorp sold 57...

NEW DELHI: The Centre is unlikely to extend the timeline for the implementation of the second phase of Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency/ Economy (CAFE) norms for vehicle manufacturers, which aims at further reducing the CO2 emission from vehicles from April 2022. Sources said Union road transport minister Nitin Gadkari made this clear to the industry at a meeting held last week where he also flagged how the vehicle manufacturers have not been able to come up with a road map to push the production of flex-fuel engines, which can run on both conventional and clean fuels such as ethanol. Sour...

The government needs to look at incentivising enhanced domestic value-addition to leverage the large imports substitution ($25 billion) opportunity that exists in the sector, said Baba Kalyani, who is also the chairman at Bharat Forge, whose businesses include automobile components.

Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) sold 2.64 million two-wheelers until December FY21, compared with 1.68 million units sold by the Japanese automaker in Indonesia. India had lost the top slot in local sales to the Southeast Asian country last fiscal.