The REPXPERT truck - Schaeffler India’s first mobile training center – will be equipped with all engine, transmission & chassis products and tools for training purposes.

Carraro to set up a new facility in Pune – its first greenfield facility outside Italy – for making new product ranges, such as portal axles, designed for the Indian off-road vehicles market.

Innolia Energy - a provider of integrated solution in solar power, energy storage and electric vehicle (EV) – is gearing up to introduce its electric bike by next year.

Interior comfort often plays an important factor in buying a vehicle. At the same time, electronic content inside car cabin is rising.

Cost pressure on auto manufacturers is leading to increase in demand for optimised designs to save on soft material (fabric, leather, etc) consumption in early stages of the product lifecycle.

Plastic parts made via the injection moulding process compose a significant portion of a vehicle’s design. With electric vehicles (EV) gaining traction, there is an increased focus on developing new products using lightweight materials, which in turn will drive the demand for moulded parts.

A host of factors such as over-capacity, slowing economic growth, soft freight rates, rising ownership and operating costs, etc has impacted the sales of commercial vehicles (CV) over the past few quarters.

Auto industry, including commercial vehicles segment, is going through a difficult phase. Against this backgound, Scania aims to continue expanding its footprint in existing segments in India while looking for possible investment opportunities to diversify in other segments.

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) showcased its readiness to the new emission norms of Bharat Stage VI which will be effective from April 2020, in a Sneak Preview event held in Chennai.