Electric Mobility News

Tata Motors' has already announced that it will present 26 smart mobility solutions across its passenger and commercial vehicles at the expo to be held from February 9-14.

The problems included Tesla needing to make some batteries by hand and borrowing scores of employees from one of its suppliers to help with manual assembly.

Rimac aims to take on Tesla's electric roadster, which was unveiled in November last year. Official name of the Concept Two will also be revealed closer to the unveil.

The Centre may dole out incentives to promote electric vehicles in the country by considering lower GST and extending tax benefit for buyers in this week's Budget for 2018-19, say sources. The announcement is expected in view of the government's aim to have 100 per cent electric vehicles for public mobility and 40 per cent for personal mobility by 2030.

California Governor set a new target of 5 million zero-emission vehicles in California by 2030, up from a prior target of 1.5 million by 2025.

The 2018 Indian Auto Expo is just around the corner and as with most auto makers in India, Toyota have announced its plans too. Toyota will showcase the brand new Vios sedan in India for the first time at the 2018 Auto Expo as its main attraction. The Japanese automaker is also scheduled to showcase facelift versions of some of its products in India along with the complete lineup of current cars that it already sells. The Toyota pavilion (Hall 10) is said to have a 'Today, Tomorrow and Future' theme to it where the 'Future' section will comprise of a range of concept cars from the Japanese automaker.

The ministry will soon bring in regulations for electric vehicles to address issues such as whether charging is a service for promoting e-mobility in the country.

Mahindra Racing has announced entering a strategic partnership with Pininfarina and Tech Mahindra. The partnership will offer the Formula E team to enhance the performance of its M5Electro race car for the upcoming season and also use race track experience in the development of new electric road vehicles.