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MG Motor India sells 4,532 units in February 2024, EVs contribute 33% of total sales

MG Motor India today announced its retail sales numbers for February 2024, totalling 4,532 units. The company registered a growth of 18% over the previous month, January 2024, with 3,825 units sold in that month. Electric vehicles (EVs) continue to contribute a significant share of the carmaker’s overall vehicle sales, accounting for approximately 33% of… Continue reading MG Motor India sells 4,532 units in February 2024, EVs contribute 33% of total sales

Norma Group wins big cooling systems order from Indian electric SUV maker

Germany’s Norma Group has announced that it is bagged a major order from an Indian electric SUV manufacturer. The leading supplier though has not revealed the OEM, likely due to an NDA between the two companies. According to Norma Group, which manufactures innovative clamps, connectors and fluid systems, “Within the customer’s all-electric SUV fleet, Norma… Continue reading Norma Group wins big cooling systems order from Indian electric SUV maker

Norma Group wins big cooling systems order from Indian electric SUV maker

Electric two-wheeler sales exceed 800,000 units in first 11 months of FY2024

The year 2024 is a leap year and at the end of leap-year day on February 29, 2024 cumulative retail sales of electric two-wheelers for the first 11 months of the fiscal year 2024 had surpassed a record 800,000 units. At 806,753 units, sales have leaped by 26% (April 2022-February 2023: 641,893 units), and have… Continue reading Electric two-wheeler sales exceed 800,000 units in first 11 months of FY2024

Electric two-wheeler sales exceed 800,000 units in first 11 months of FY2024

Auto Insurance Spike Hampers the Inflation Fight

Job growth, wage growth and business growth are all lively, and inflation has steeply fallen from its 2022 highs. But consumer sentiment, while improving, is still sour. One reason may be sticker shock from some highly visible prices — even as overall inflation has calmed. The cost of car insurance is a key example. Motor… Continue reading Auto Insurance Spike Hampers the Inflation Fight

Behind Apple’s Doomed Car Project: False Starts and Wrong Turns

For the last decade, many Apple employees working on the company’s secretive car project, internally code-named Titan, had a less flattering name for it: the Titanic disaster. They knew the project was likely to fail. Throughout its existence, the car effort was scrapped and rebooted several times, shedding hundreds of workers along the way. As… Continue reading Behind Apple’s Doomed Car Project: False Starts and Wrong Turns

Volkswagen Sees Electric Vehicles as a Way to Grow in the U.S.

Probably only Americans of a certain age remember when the Volkswagen Beetle was the best-selling imported car in the United States and the hippest ride to a Grateful Dead concert was a Volkswagen Microbus. Volkswagen is trying to tap some of that nostalgia in its latest push to regain the status and sales it enjoyed… Continue reading Volkswagen Sees Electric Vehicles as a Way to Grow in the U.S.

For 2024 F1 Season, Red Bull is the Focus

For Red Bull’s nine rivals in Formula 1, there is a mix of hope and realism that the sport’s dominant team can be beaten this season. Last year, Red Bull and its champion driver, Max Verstappen, rewrote the record books in defending their constructors’ and drivers’ titles. Ahead of the new season, which starts with… Continue reading For 2024 F1 Season, Red Bull is the Focus