Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) was on Monday allotted 827-acre land for a new manufacturing plant in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, an official said. TKM on July 31 signed an agreement with the state government to set up a greenfield manufacturing facility for electric and hybrid cars. “A greenfield smart industrial city was set up in the … Read more
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday laid the foundation stone for a new manufacturing facility of auto major Tata Motors here entailing investment of Rs 9,000 crore. The ground breaking ceremony was held at Panapakkam in this district, about 115 km from Chennai. The facility is expected to generate 5,000 new jobs. … Read more
New Delhi: The planned ₹25,000 crore ($3 billion) IPO by Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) will drive parent Hyundai Motor’s ambitious strategy to make India a key export hub to expand its global business, besides seeking gains in the domestic market, said senior industry executives with knowledge of the matter. As part of this, the … Read more
Ford Motor Co. is delaying the start of electric vehicle production at its plant in Oakville, Ont., by two years. The U.S. automaker had planned to start production at the Canadian plant, which employs 2,700 workers, in 2025 and is pushing that back to 2027. Ford announced plans last year to spend $1.8 billion to … Read more
Flavio Volpe, head of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, believes the recent electric vehicle targets set out by Canada’s environment minister also carried this pointed message to Canada’s domestic auto industry: “Let them eat cake.” Volpe says he has come to this conclusion because he believes those goals, which include a national target of 100 per cent zero-emission vehicle sales by 2035, cannot be … Read more
