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Ashok Leyland reports 125% growth in total sales; 14,351 units sold in June

Commercial vehicle maker Ashok Leyland on Friday reported 125 per cent growth in total sales at 14,351 units in June as compared to the year-ago period. The company had registered a total sales of 6,448 units in June 2021, Ashok Leyland said in a statement. The total M&HCV sales, including exports, rose 238 per cent at 9,354 units in June 2022 as against 2,764 units in June 2021. The LCV total sales during the period under review stood at 5,177 units, which was 41 per cent higher compared to 3,684 units in the same month of 2021, it said. M&HCV domestic sales, including buses, grew 255 per cent at 8,399 units. The same stood at 2,364 units in the preceding year.

Audi clocks 49% sales growth at 1,765 units in January-June period

Audi India had retailed 1,181 units in the same period last year

SUVs to tractors: M&M not taking foot off pedal, on recovery road

Favourable agri macros, improving SUV demand, and easing commodity prices augur well for automaker

Sundram Fasteners says it will invest around Rs 400 cr in next 2 years

Government's production linked incentive scheme will be good for the automotive sector, says firm

Tech Mahindra CEO C P Gurnani's pay rises 189% to Rs 63.4 cr in FY22

Tech Mahindra managing director and chief executive CP Gurnani's remuneration for FY22 jumped 189 per cent to Rs 63.4 crore, the fifth-largest IT exporter said on Wednesday. In its annual report for the fiscal, Tech Mahindra said Gurnani's remuneration, including salary, stock compensation benefits and post-employment benefits was Rs 21.9 crore in the year-ago period. Among Gurnani's peers, TCS chief Rajesh Gopinathan saw a 26 per cent rise in his compensation to Rs 25.75 crore in FY22, while Infosys' Salil Parekh witnessed a 43 per cent jump to Rs 71.02 crore. Gurnani's salary was 1,188.74 times the median salary of Rs 5.27 lakh in Tech Mahindra. The median salary declined by 1.04 per cent during the fiscal. Shareholders of the company will be voting on a proposal to re-appoint Gurnani for over one year at the company's forthcoming AGM, the annual report said. The current term of Gurnani, who has been at the helm since 2012, expires in August and will be retiring on December 19,

Bajaj Auto to buy back shares worth Rs 2,500 crore at Rs 4,600 each

Two-wheeler giant Bajaj Auto to take back 5.43 mn shares at Rs 4,600 a piece

TVS to bet on electric vehicles; to come up with 5-25-kW products

TVS Motor Company is coming up with multiple products in the two- and three-wheeler segments

Are you planning to buy a car? Check out their NCAP ratings here

The Global NCAP crash-tests cars and rates them according to their safety levels. Here is what it found.

How the economic crisis in Sri Lanka is affecting Indian businesses?

Sri Lanka's economy is in a free fall. But some spillover of the Lanka crisis is hurting Indian businesses too, like the auto sector. We try to gauge the overall effect of the crisis on India

About 50% of Ford's Chennai employees agree to restart production: Official

Unions refute claim, say only 350-odd employees are heading back to shopfloor

EVs catching fire because of 'mad rush' to get into business: Rajiv Bajaj

'Upstarts and not start-ups have entered the sector'

Carmakers feel chip crisis easing as global economic growth slows

Mercedes Benz AG, Daimler Truck Holding AG, and BMW AG are among carmakers now getting enough of the high-tech components to produce at full capacity after experiencing crippling outages for months

Mahindra & Mahindra to launch fully electric version of XUV 300 in Q1 2023

Home-grown auto major Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) on Monday said it is planning to launch the fully electric version of its XUV 300 SUV in the market in the first quarter of next year. The company also announced that it will unveil its electric vehicle business strategy, 'Born Electric Vision' of EV concept in August this year. The Mumbai-headquartered company has recently partnered with Volkswagen to explore the use of the latter's modular electric drive matrix (MEB) components that can be used in its electric cars. MEB electric platform and its components allow car manufacturers to build their portfolio of electrified vehicles, quickly and cost-effectively. "We will be launching the electric version of XUV 300, which we hope to have in the first quarter of the next calendar year," M&M executive Director Rajesh Jejurikar said at a media conference on Monday. He said that though it is called the electric version of XUV 300, it is a 4.2 meter in length vehicle and not sub-4 ..

When it comes to EVs, raising funds seems easier than building them

Stocks of EV upstarts, from New York-listed, Chinese firms such as Nio, Xpeng and Li Auto to their American peers Rivian Automotive and Lordstown Motors, have lost their sheen in recent weeks

Hindustan Motors plots a comeback; talks on for JV with European co for EVs

MoU signed, due diligence expected to start soon and conclude in 2-3 months; project will start two-wheelers and then add four-wheelers

Maruti shareholders approve appointment of Hisashi Takeuchi as MD and CEO

The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Tuesday said its shareholders have approved the appointment of Hisashi Takeuchi as Managing Director and CEO. In a regulatory filing, the auto major said 99.89 per cent of votes polled through a postal ballot were in favour of the appointment of Takeuchi as MD and CEO. Similarly, 93.10 per cent of votes polled favoured the appointment of Kenichi Ayukawa as a whole-time Director designated as Executive Vice Chairman till September 30, 2022. The company's board in its meeting held on March 24 this year had appointed Takeuchi as the MD and CEO with effect from April 1, 2022, consequent to the completion of the term of Kenichi Ayukawa on March 31, 2022. Takeuchi joined Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC) in 1986. With vast experience in the international operations at SMC as well as in overseas markets, he had been on the Board of Maruti Suzuki since July 2019, as Joint Managing Director (Commercial) since April 2021.

Tata Motors shares jump over 8% after narrowing of net loss in Q4FY22

The stock jumped 8.30 per cent to Rs 403 on the BSE; at NSE, it zoomed 8.31 per cent to Rs 403.25 apiece

MG Motor India crosses 100,000 cumulative sales mark in nearly 3 yrs

MG Motor, which started selling its vehicles in India with the launch of Hector SUV in June 2019, currently has a portfolio including the electric SUV, ZS EV, premium SUV Gloster and compact SUV Astor

Real estate, auto companies to bear the brunt of interest rate hikes

Niranjan Hiranandani, managing director of Hiranandani Group, said the RBI had to ensure that inflationary pressure on the individual did not get exacerbated by higher rates on home loans

TVS Motor April sales rise 24% to 295,308 units; exports increase 6%

TVS Motorcycle sales grew by 4%, from 133,227 units in April 2021 to 139,027 units in April 2022