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New Delhi, Sept 11: Passenger vehicle sales accelerated by 14 per cent in August to 2.15 lakh as against 1.89 lakh units in the same month of last year, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) said on Friday. Two-wheeler sales rose by 3 per cent at 15.6 lakh units as compared to 15.1 lakh units in the August last year. Motorcycle sales were up over 10 per cent at 10.3 lakh units

New Delhi, Sept 10: 'One Electric Motorcycles' announced today that they have completed the Homologation process and on-road trials of their Made in India Electric Motorcycle, KRIDN. The deliveries of the first production batch will commence in October 2020, covering four cities for the initial launch. Dealership applications and pre-booking registrations (which are free, no deposits needed) are

Most consumers in India would consider buying an electric vehicle by 2022, but most of them also believe that it won't be until 2025 that the majority of new cars purchased are electric, according to a study by lubricants major Castrol. The study found that on an average for consumers in India, a price point of Rs 23 lakh (or USD 31,000), a charge time of 35 minutes and a range of 401 kilometers

Bengaluru, Sept 3: Ultraviolette Automotive has received an additional investment of Rs 30 crore from TVS Motor Company after the nationwide unveiling of its high-performance motorcycle F77. This investment is part of its latest round (series B) of funding. Manu Saxena, Vice President for future mobility and dealer transformation at TVS Motor, said Ultraviolette Automotive continues to demonstrate

New York, Aug 29: Units of Honda Motor Co have agreed to pay $85 million to settle an investigation by most US states into its use of defective Takata airbag inflators in its vehicles, according to a consent order made public on Tuesday. The state probes are connected with the ongoing recalls of tens of millions of vehicles equipped with potentially defective Takata inflators that were sold by

San Francisco, Aug 29: Futurist entrepreneur Elon Musk late Friday demonstrated progress made by his Neuralink startup in meshing brains with computers, saying the work is essential to the future of humanity. Musk has long contended that a neural lace merging minds with machines is vital if people are going to avoid being so outpaced by artificial intelligence that, under the best of circumstances

Tiruchirappalli, Aug 27: A girl draped in a saree greets customers at the entrance of a garment store in Tiruchirappalli, as is often the norm in most such stores. The only difference here is that the 'girl' here is a humanoid robot. Named 'Zafira', the robot equipped with artificial intelligence keeps tracks of the number of customers entering the store, at a time and monitors them to ensure they

New Delhi, Aug 24: MG Motor India on Monday said it has entered pre-owned car business in the country. The company has introduced certified pre-owned car vertical, 'MG Reassure' which aims to provide quick and the best residual value for MG cars to customers across its dealerships, MG Motor India said in a statement. The pre-owned vehicles will be assessed through over 160 quality checks to ensure

New Delhi, Aug 23: Automobile demand is picking up but the over-sensitivity and jitteriness of financial companies such as banks and NBFCs are dampening the real conversion of orders to deliveries, according to a senior official of Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM). With the kicking off of festive season, the company has witnessed up to 30 per cent higher flow of orders in August compared to July

New Delhi, Aug 20: It's time to bid farewell your companion of the early '90s - Internet Explorer (IE). In a statement, tech giant Microsoft confirmed in their blog post on Monday that the browser service will be replaced with its new sibling Microsoft Edge that was launched five years ago. By August 17 next year, the Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer support IE 11. Instead, the tech