M&M is wheeling big money into business. What is the plan?

M&M is wheeling big money into business. What is the plan?

India’s fourth-largest auto company, M&M, is shifting into a higher gear and pressing down on accelerator. It plans to fuel its business growth with an ambitious capital infusion plan. It will inject Rs 37,000 crore into its business, across different segments, over the next three years. A bigger part of this money will go into … Read more

Tesla Cybertruck Is Already The Second Most Popular Electric Truck On The Market

Tesla Cybertruck Is Already The Second Most Popular Electric Truck On The Market

Good morning! It’s Thursday, May 16, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived 1st Gear: Cybertruck Already Beating Out Electric Truck Mainstays The Tesla Cybertruck is … Read more

2025 Volvo EX90 Puts Safety And Luxury At The Forefront

2025 Volvo EX90 Puts Safety And Luxury At The Forefront

While most of the world’s carmakers — and the press outlets who dutifully chronicle their every mood swing — are busy hyperventilating over unfair subsidies greasing the skids for the cataclysmic Chinese electric car menace come to up-end the auto business we westerners all know and love, Volvo Cars and its fans can only thank … Read more

TVS iQube: TVS Motor launches new variant of iQube priced at Rs 94,999

TVS iQube: TVS Motor launches new variant of iQube priced at Rs 94,999

TVS Motor Company launched a new variant of the TVS iQube with a 2.2 kWh battery at Rs 94,999 (Bengaluru ex-showroom), the company said in a press release on Monday. With a top speed of 75 kmph, the two-wheeler will have a 950W charger and its fastest charging time (0-80%) is of two hours. The … Read more

Tesla Lays Off Lowly Paid Interns Weeks Before Summer Starts

Tesla Lays Off Lowly Paid Interns Weeks Before Summer Starts

Good morning! It’s Friday, May 3, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. 1st Gear: Interns Are Tesla’s Latest Cost-Cutting Victims It’s a stressful time for anyone with a job at … Read more

Another Elon Musk Promise Dies As Tesla Scraps ‘Gigacasting’

Another Elon Musk Promise Dies As Tesla Scraps ‘Gigacasting’

Good morning! It’s Thursday, May 2, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. The Hype Behind Tesla Stock Success In 2023 1st Gear: Elon Musk, Tesla Kill ‘Gigasting’ Manufacturing Process Tesla … Read more

MG Motor India reports 1.45 pc dip in retail sales at 4,485 units in April

MG Motor India reports 1.45 pc dip in retail sales at 4,485 units in April

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China’s EV survival game creates peril — and power

China’s EV survival game creates peril — and power

BEIJING: By most measures, the last thing China needs is more electric cars crowding a market with more losers than winners, driving down prices at the expense of profit and taking the fight for market share beyond China. And that’s just what it is getting. Automakers are expected to launch 110 EVs and plug-in hybrids … Read more

Tesla Hopes New Models Can Shore Up A 55 Percent Drop In Profits

Tesla Hopes New Models Can Shore Up A 55 Percent Drop In Profits

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, April 24, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. The Hype Behind Tesla Stock Success In 2023 1st Gear: Tesla Profits Drop 55 Percent Tesla doesn’t seem … Read more

BMW’s Vision Neue Klasse X Concept Is A Big Step In The Right Direction

BMW’s Vision Neue Klasse X Concept Is A Big Step In The Right Direction

Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik The Bangle years are not only my favorite era of BMW design, but one of my favorite eras of design at any automaker. No other company was taking risks and innovating like BMW was, and Bangle’s Flame Surfacing technique forever influenced the rest of the industry. The groundbreaking i3 and i8 were … Read more