Beginning next year, Deepak will take over as MD and CEO from Subir Kumar Chowdhury, 61 years, who has announced his retirement after his 15-year stint with JCB India.

The JV - PV Clean Mobility Technologies - will focus on sensors and actuators, as well as fuel delivery modules for passenger car, commercial vehicle and two-wheeler-markets.

These scooters enable 90 per cent savings as against conventional scooters. Also, electric scooters are zero-noise vehicles, promoting quiet drives.

In this interview with Rakesh Rao, Anurag Garg, MD & Country Head (India), Vitesco Technologies - formerly the Powertrain Division of Continental - discusses how auto component industry is coping with COVID pandemic and the growth plans of the company.

Tata AutoComp and Tellus will provide various sizes of AC chargers from 3 kW to 11kW for home and residential complexes as well as DC Fast Chargers from 20kW to 300kW

The MoU marks an investment in the state-of-the-art automotive manufacturing facility in Talegaon, Maharashtra. The plant will be equipped with latest world-class technology.

The company has curated detailed guidelines for each location and conducted intensive training for maintaining social distancing at workplaces. Enhanced sanitisation measures are being implemented.

In FY20, the industry sales experienced a sharp decline of 14.8 per cent y-o-y vis-à-vis a growth of about 6.4 per cent during FY19 led by factors such as increased insurance costs, uneven monsoon, high ownership costs, curtailed lending by the NBFC segment,etc.

India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA), one of the leading alliances on energy storage & e-mobility along with Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET) conducted India’s first two days training workshop for li-ion cell fabrication and battery testing in Pune.