Since its inception in 2008, Sujan ContTech India has created world class, cost effective anti-vibration solutions for passenger vehicles, leveraging its in-depth understanding of the market and customer requirements. Building on this strong foundation, in 2018, CEO, Vijay J Sujan strategized a specialised focus on commercial vehicles with the clear intent to create new capabilities […]
By Turab Ali Khan, Principal Consultant, Mobility Growth Advisory, Frost & Sullivan India’s commercial vehicle (CV) fleet operates under demanding duty cycles. Trucks and buses cover long, overloaded, pothole-ridden routes in extreme heat and dust, and fleet operators run their vehicles hard because uptime is directly tied to revenue. This is precisely why the aftermarket, […]
By Mr. Anand Kumar, Business Head – Aftermarket, Uno Minda Ltd. The future isn’t physical versus digital, but digitally enabled physical networks combining reach, speed, transparency and intelligence. India’s automotive aftermarket is at an interesting inflection point. For decades, the sector has largely been defined by replacement demand, vehicle parc, price competitiveness and the reach […]
By Rama Shankar Pandey, Chairman – FICCI Road Safety, Chairman – BARS & EC Member ACMA It gives sleepless nights to many leaders across India’s mobility industry that nearly eight decades after Independence, we continue to lose a fellow Indian every three minutes on our roads. Most of these deaths are preventable. Yet, no other […]
By Ashim Sharma, Senior Partner & Group Head, NRI Consulting & Solutions India India’s automotive sector is undergoing a major transition as we rapidly approach a vehicle parc of 10 million Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs). The BEV parc has grown by 57% CAGR from 2020, enabled by the expansion of charging infrastructure and strong policy […]
The Indian automotive aftermarket is entering the most transformative decade in its history. For the companies and garages willing to change with it, the prize is not just India — it is the global south. A single number frames the decade ahead. Over the next fifteen years, already one of the world’s largest, the Indian […]
Sitting lower on the automotive value chain, component makers are enabling innovation and growth By Poonam Upadhyay, Director, Crisil Ratings Limited A quiet revolution is underway in India’s thriving automotive sector as vehicles become increasingly sophisticated and supply chains more globalised. At its heart are the country’s auto component makers, who have emerged as a […]
Speech delivered by Onkar Kanwar, Chairman, Apollo Tyres Ltd. at the company’s 53rd Annual General Meeting It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the 53rd Annual General Meeting of Apollo Tyres Ltd. I would like to begin with a thought by Mahatma Gandhi: “The future depends on what we do in the present.” As I […]
By R. Dinesh, Chairman, TVS Supply Chain Solutions Over the past seven decades, India’s commercial vehicle industry and logistics sector have evolved from serving a largely domestic economy to enabling one of the world’s fastest-growing manufacturing and consumption markets. As Motor India celebrates its 70th anniversary, it is also an appropriate moment to look beyond […]
Speech delivered by Anand Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., at the company’s 80th AGM In my letter to you last year, I had described the prevailing global situation as a Samudra Manthan – a great churning. I acknowledged that every country and every company was inescapably going to have to swallow some of the […]
By Mahesh Babu, Managing Director, Olectra Greentech Limited The Next Chapter in India’s Mobility Story India’s mobility story has long been driven by road transport, with buses forming the backbone of the nation’s public transportation system. Every day, an estimated 40 crore passenger journeys are made through public and private bus networks, connecting people to […]
By Ravichandran Srinivasan, Industry Domain Expert Running an automobile dealership is a paradox of scale. It is a high-volume, capital-intensive business that operates on razor-thin net margins, typically between 1% and 2%. In this hyper-competitive environment, even minor operational inefficiencies or unmonitored financial leakages can quickly transform a high-revenue enterprise into a loss-making one. Achieving […]
By Ravichandran Srinivasan Developing a modern vehicle transit stockyard is a complex infrastructure project that goes far beyond simply creating a parking area. Transforming an open, uneven tract of land covered with vegetation and soft soil into a state-of-the-art stockyard capable of accommodating 10,000 vehicles requires meticulous planning, robust civil engineering and the seamless integration […]
By Vishwas Shankar, Vice President & Nachiket Devasthale, Senior Consultant, Mobility Growth Advisory, Frost & Sullivan India’s commercial vehicle (CV) industry has been anchored in diesel-led operating economics for decades. Vehicle value has traditionally been defined by uptime and payload, with limited emphasis on emissions. For most of that time, electric mobility sat somewhere between […]
By Ravichandran Srinivasan In an increasingly competitive automotive landscape, the key to sustained success for car dealerships lies in optimizing both sales and after-sales operations. While attracting new customers remains vital, the real profitability often hinges on how effectively dealerships manage their service departments and after-sales services. The ability to streamline processes, enhance customer satisfaction, […]