India is set to overtake Japan to become the third-largest automotive market in the world by 2021, thus offering huge growth opportunity for garage equipment suppliers.

After successfully hosting its Intelligent Mobility Symposium in London for 10 years, Frost & Sullivan is set to launch it in India. Intelligent Mobility 2019 Summit will be held on 11th September, 2019 at Le Meridien, New Delhi.

The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), in an official communiqué observed that the auto industry had registered a decline in sales by 9.31 per cent over the period of April-May 2019.

In a bid to support students and research scholars to conduct automotive research as part of their industry academia initiative, Valeo, an automotive supplier has unveiled Center of Excellence at VIT Vellore.

The automotive industry, which has been struggling in the last few months, witnessed seven months of consecutive decline in passenger car industry.

Though industry is experiencing a staunch decline in sales compared to that of last year, the exports of Passenger Vehicles and Two Wheelers registered growth.

The auto industry produced a total of 2,363,376 vehicles including passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, three wheelers, two wheelers and quadricycle in April 2019 as against 2,646,257 in April 2018, registering a decline of (-) 10.69 per cent over the same month last year.

As the automotive industry evolves to hybrid and electric propulsion, chain drive technology is a strategic enabler.

With the advancement of rising additive manufacturing technologies that promise to render benefits in terms of cost, flexibility and speed, the automotive industry will contribute vastly to large scale adoption of AM, says Ankit Sahu.