Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) system testing involves high costs and safety concerns. Tata Elxsi’s V2X Emulator can reduce the time and cost of testing V2X communication by detecting defects much earlier in the development cycle, says Rakesh Rao.

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.

Scaling and changing production skill and capabilities is a must for companies in this fast pace world and they have to adopt a more agile mentality.

Varroc Group, the tier 1 supplier to auto OEMs, today is the second largest auto component manufacturer in India.

Though India accounts for just 2 per cent of automotives globally, it is responsible for more than 11 per cent of road traffic deaths. In 2018 alone, around 149,000 people lost their lives on Indian roads.

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.

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.

Increasing sales of passenger cars is boosting the brakes market in India. At the same time, regulatory mandates for making vehicles safer is leading to rising need to use advanced braking systems like ABS (anti-lock braking system), electronic stability control (ESC), etc.