Travel is not always for the adventure and thrill of being in a new place. It’s also about finding new cuisine authentic to a particular place. Tamil Nadu is bestowed with a huge number of mouth-watering dishes that also have several regional variations. The appealing aspect is, that most of these snacks aren’t close to…
1 min readNew DelhiJun 11, 2022 03:57 AM IST With the semiconductor shortage easing a bit, the wholesale despatches of passenger vehicles (PVs) in May improved over the same month in 2019, which was a non-Covid year. However, sales were still lower than the level achieved in 2018 when the segment was witnessing a handsome…
2 min readPuneJun 11, 2022 04:05 AM IST First published on: Jun 11, 2022 at 04:05 AM IST Calling startups manufacturing electric two-wheelers “upstarts”, Bajaj Auto managing director Rajiv Bajaj blamed them for the recent fire incidents and said they had no business to be in the space. Speaking at the inauguration of an electric…
1 min readUpdated: Jun 16, 2022 04:41 PM IST Tesla Inc raised prices for all its car models in the United States, its latest price hike amid ongoing global supply-chain issues. The electric carmaker increased its Model Y long-range price to $65,990 from $62,990, its website showed on Thursday, after delaying the deliveries of some…
Government think tank NITI Aayog and the Department of Science & Technology (DST) have kicked off deliberations with the industry and academia on developing an open source battery management system (BMS) for two- and three-wheeler EVs. While the idea to develop an open source BMS was first floated last year, it has caught renewed momentum…
2 min readNew DelhiJun 20, 2022 04:05 AM IST Toyota’s upcoming mid-size SUV, likely to be called the Urban Cruiser Hyryder, will be a possible global launch and would be shown for the first time on July 1, 2022. The vehicle, developed in partnership with Maruti Suzuki, will leverage Toyota’s Self-Charging Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technology…
Henry N. Manney III, an automotive journalist best known for his extensive writing in Road & Track magazine, bought a Ferrari 250 GTO in the late 1960s. One of just 36 ever built, the car was Ferrari’s $18,000 top-of-the-line sports/racing car in 1962. When the cars first rolled off the line, Enzo Ferrari, the company…
2 min readNew DelhiJul 7, 2022 01:32 PM IST TVS motor company has launched a new 225 cc bike “TVS RONIN”, based on “modern-retro” priced at Rs 1.49 lakhs (ex-showroom). The auto company, with this bike, aims to enter into the “premium lifestyle motorcycling” segment with an exclusive range of merchandise and accessories, a riding…
2 min readNew DelhiJul 20, 2022 11:00 AM IST Toyota Kirloskar Motor will be imparting automobile skill training to 18,000 students in three years, with a focus on those having a rural background, according to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) it has signed with the central government and cooperative society Automotive Skill Development Council (ASDC)….
German Automaker BMW has unveiled the fifth-generation BMW X5. The SUV features an all-new exterior design, a new cabin, added features and multiple powertrain options. For the first time, the luxury SUV will be available with a fully electric variant, the iX5, while a hydrogen fuel-cell version has also been confirmed for a later launch….