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Mumbai, Sept 15: Toyota Motor Corp. won’t expand further in India due to the country’s high tax regime, a blow for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who’s trying to lure global companies to offset the deep economic malaise brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The government keeps taxes on cars and motorbikes so high that companies find it hard to build scale, said Shekar Viswanathan, vice chairman

Washington, Sept 15: Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday declared that the company's lifetime net carbon footprint is now zero as it has eliminated its entire carbon legacy -- covering all its operational emissions before it became carbon neutral in 2007 -- through the purchase of high-quality carbon offsets. "We're pleased to be the first major company to get this done, today," Pichai

Gurugram, Sept 12: Tech giant Samsung has announced that it will start pre-booking of smartphone Galaxy Z Fold2 5G from September 14 in India. The mobile phone priced at Rs 1,49,999, comes with a foldable screen and a flagship camera which includes Pro Video mode, Single Take, Bright Night, and Night Mode. "With the Galaxy Z Fold2 5G, we are taking another bold step towards the future, creating

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