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

With automobile manufacturers harnessing emerging technologies, eyeing surge in demand for new-age vehicles, Anjan Kumar delves through changing dynamics of the automotives from efficiency towards innovation.

The new turbocharging system takes care that Mercedes-Benz OM 654, which offers a smaller displacement of just under two liters compared to its forerunner, still delivers 20 per cent higher power output.

Electric cars are going to be the future. However, manufacturers still face some major challenges before emissions-free electromobility becomes a reality, especially heavy batteries, which change the vehicle construction and design.

Automotive industry has been an early adopter of robotics for application such as welding, painting, glue dispensing, etc.

Owing to their varied strengths, Cobots bring in ingenuity and creativity by taking care of repetitive manual labor activities so that the employees can climb up the skills ladder.

Today, there are several areas or tasks that are automated or handled by robots at auto manufacturing units in India.

Lightweighting of cars is something that OEMs have put on top of their checklist. Automakers have manufactured vehicles which are more efficient, without sacrificing power and performance, with the help of a dimension of technological innovations.

A sea of change is occurring in the automotive industry and rather than one, it is an amalgamation of different factors. We are staring at the threshold of the auto industry’s Renaissance.