Ahmedabad: The Gujarat state transport department has given nod for setting up three registered automobile scrapping facilities in the state. Out of these three, two facilities will get erected in Kheda and one in Bhavnagar, with an estimated cost of around 17 crores per facility. Registered vehicle scrapping facilities (RVSFs) will be spread over approximately one acre each. The new vehicle scrapping policy will be implemented in two phases, the first for commercial vehicles on April ...Read More

Mumbai: In a development that is expected to boost electric vehicle (EV) adoption and mobility in India, MG Motor India and Castrol India are set to collaborate with Jio-bp to explore mobility solutions for electric cars. Under the partnership, Jio-bp, MG Motor and Castrol will explore setting up four-wheeler EV charging infrastructure and expand Castrol’s existing auto service network to cater to EV Customers. The partnership is in line with Jio-bp and MG Motor's commitment to provide a v...Read More

Gandhinagar: A tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed today here in the presence of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel between the State government, Tata Motors' subsidiary Tata Passenger Electric Mobility Limited and Ford India Private Limited. As per the MoU, Tata Motors Ltd will acquire all land, buildings, plant machineries and the vehicle assembly unit of Ford India Pvt Ltd at Sanand. Tata Motors will also accommodate all staffers of vehicle assembly plant of Ford Indi...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat government today signed an MoU with Triton Electric Vehicle LLC for setting up a manufacturing plant of electric commercial vehicles in Kutch district of Gujarat. The plant will be set up with a total investment of Rs 10,800 crore according tot he State government. The investment of Rs 1200 crore will be made in the financial year 2022-23 itself to start the plant. The MoU was signed in the presence of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel. The plant will provide direct and indi...Read More

Mumbai: Leading the electric vehicle segment in India, Tata Motors today said it has recorded a remarkable feat of on-boarding its 10,000th EV customer. Company's electric cat variants Tigor EV and Tigor XPRES T are manufactured in Tata Motors car manufacturing plant at Sanand in Gujarat from where the EV journey of Tata Motors started way back in 2017. The other variant Nexon EV is manufactured at Pune plant. The company said, the first 10,000 EVs have been led by the early adopters and wi...Read More

Ahmedabad: Renault India is celebrating the 10th Anniversary of its operations in India and as part of the celebrations launched the new RXT (O) variant of Renault KIGER and the KWID MY21 in Ahmedabad. The Renault KIGER RXT(O) will be available in 1.0L Energy Engine in both MT and AMT transmissions. The RXT(O) variant will get some of the customer favorite, premium features from the RXZ variant such as the Tri-octa LED Pure Vision Headlamps and 40.64 cm Diamond Cut Alloy Wheels at a more affo...Read More

Ahmedabad: A start-up named Tesco ChargeZone installed 8 new Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations on National Highway-8 between Ahmedabad and Mumbai. These EV charging stations have fast charging capabilities and they can charge an electric vehicle within 40 minutes. Each of them is of the capacity of 60 kilowatts. Kartikey Hariyani, founder and CEO of the Gujarat based start-up Tesco ChargeZone informed that the eight charging stations include two at Mumbai airport and two at each lo...Read More

Gandhinagar: U.S. headquartered car manufacturer Ford India today made announcement to wind up its vehicle manufacturing operations at Sanand plant in Gujarat and Chennai plant in Tamil Nadu. Ford India said, the company will progressively wind-down manufacturing for export at Sanand plant by quarter four of year 2021 and Chennai engine/vehicle assembly plants by quarter 2 of year 2022. The company said it will continue engine manufacturing for export. 'The sale of our current produc...Read More

Sabarmati: Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has proposed to increase vehicle tax on vehicles costing more than 15 lakhs. However the decision will come to effect only after approval of the state government. AMC will increase the one-time payable vehicle tax ranging from 0.5 % to as much as 2 %. It will levy an additional burden of Rs 10 crore on people who own high range of cars/SUVs. Chairman of AMC’s revenue committee stated that expensive cars like SUVs use more fuel and increase pol...Read More