Indian roads are considered to be the most dangerous in the world with 140,000 deaths reported every year due to vehicle accidents.

OEMs are working on manufacturing vehicles that are light in weight, thus consuming less fuel. For example, a 10 per cent reduction in weight can result in 6-8 per cent fuel economy improvement.

These are demanding applications and important drivers for the automotive industry.

Bearings, which add a healthy amount of weight to any vehicle, play a key role in lightweighting of vehicles, and thus making them more fuel-efficient. With the market for electric vehicles (EV) growing, auto makers are also demanding bearings that can handle higher speeds, temperatures and performance.

There is a nationwide upscale in emission norms while the industry gradually moves from BS-4 to BS-6 by April 2020.

Visteon Corporation has inaugurated its new expanded technology centre in Karlsruhe, Germany. It will drive advanced development of vehicle cockpit electronics, including information display, driver assistance, cockpit domain controller and autonomous driving technologies.

The Haneda area is designated a National Strategic Special Zone (NSSZ), where a regulatory sandbox system is adopted to allow for field tests of advanced mobility technologies on public roads, including automated driving.

While Ford will procure BS VI petrol engines from Mahindra starting in 2020 for its vehicles, two companies will jointly develop telematics control unit for connected vehicles

Eaton, a global power management technology player, has been offering energy-efficient products and services to customers for effectively managing electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power more reliably, efficiently, safely and sustainably.