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Mahindra’s EV Sales Rise Over 2.5 Times To 10,276 Units In FY19

Mahindra's Treo and e-Supro cargo has already qualified for the benefits under the FAME-II incentive scheme.  Homegrown auto major Mahindra & Mahindra's electric vehicle (EV)...

Hero Electric to Expand its Presence in India, To Open 15 New Dealerships

Hero Electric has about 610 sales and service outlets spread across India and sold nearly 3 lakh electric two-wheelers in the country Hero Electric, India's...

Hyundai-Kia Plans To Start Local Assembly Of EV In India

Hyundai motor group is looking at the possibility of partnering with LG for the batteries while also evaluating other international suppliers for the same. India...

Greaves Cotton To Foray Into Electric Vehicle Battery Manufacturing

Greaves is currently working on potential investment in a battery plant for electric vehicles for which it is building a local network of suppliers. The...

Honda Aims To Start EV Journey In India With Hybrid Technology

Currently, Honda sells just one hybrid model (Accord Hybrid) in the domestic market. Japanese auto major Honda will use hybrid vehicles as intermediates in the...

India To Soon Have Its Own Standards For EV Charging Stations

The increasing use of EVs in cab services will also help bring down the expense to return ratio of charging stations. One of the biggest...

Ashok Leyland Ready To Adopt New Technology, Invites Tesla To India

With the news of Ashok Leyland offering welcoming hands, we might see Musk's India dream coming true sometime soon. Tesla CEO Elon Musk who has...

Electric Vehicle Count Remains Stagnant In Bengaluru

Around 1,750 new vehicles are registered in the city every day and the number of vehicles in Bengaluru has crossed 80.45 lakh, but the...

EV Industry To Create 10 Million Jobs In Future: Report

The making of EV-specific occupational standards has been initiated in partnership with the Pune-based Automotive Research Association of India. India has chalked a plan to...

Ather To Set Up EV Charging Stations In Chennai

Ather Energy aims to set-up 6500 charging points across the country by 2022.  IIT-Madras incubated electric scooter maker Ather Energy has begun installing its charger...

Panasonic Partners With Tesla; To Install 1 Lakh EV Charging Stations By 2024

While Panasonic will control the core network and technologies, the expansion will be made operational through the franchise model. In a big move towards tackling...

Auto Majors Need Volume To Localise EVs: Maruti Suzuki

The government should encourage hybrid technology as the half step before full electrification. Auto companies need volumes if they are to localise electric vehicle and...

Industry's Buzz

ASMl Holdings

ASML and TSMC Partner to Advance Next-Generation Semiconductor Mask Tech

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The chipmaking giants target a shift to larger 12-inch photomasks to boost manufacturing productivity and lower advanced node costs.  ASML and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...

Ultraviolette to Build Major EV Factory in Tamil Nadu

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The Indian electric vehicle manufacturer plans to produce up to 500,000 units annually at its new automated facility in Hosur.  Electric vehicle pioneer Ultraviolette Automotive...
Drone

Karnataka to Build $5.1m Drone Testing Hub

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The state government targets advanced aerial mobility expansion with a dedicated testing facility in Chikkaballapura.  Karnataka is set to bolster its aerial mobility ecosystem by...
Telecommunications sector

US Backs Africell with $100m Loan to Counter Huawei in Africa

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The Trump administration finances the US-owned telecoms operator to expand trusted mobile network technology across the continent.  The US government is set to provide a...
CXMT

China’s CXMT Takes Top Spot with 82 per cent Profit Margin

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The DRAM manufacturer’s record profitability eclipses Samsung and SK Hynix as conventional memory prices surge.   China’s leading DRAM manufacturer, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), has achieved...

Learn From Leaders

India’s Photonics Puzzle Is Finally Coming Together 

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Can India turn its scattered photonics capabilities into a stronger industry? A new association aims to connect the ecosystem and strengthen the domestic value...
Jin Bains, CEO, Mini-Circuits

Mini-Circuits CEO Jin Bains on Navigating High-Frequency Component SWaP-C Constraints, Emerging Markets, and Career...

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In this exclusive, Jin Bains, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mini-Circuits, explains in a conversation with Dilin Anand of EFY about areas of emerging...

India Needs Not a Hundred, But Thousands of Chip Diversified Companies 

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Can India build a semiconductor ecosystem beyond fabs? Indiesemic believes thousands of diversified chip companies are needed to make that possible. India’s semiconductor push is...
L Venkata Subramaniam, CEO, Qbit Force, Andhra Pradesh

“We Aim To Make Quantum Computing More Visible, Understandable, And Open To Build On”...

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From building India’s first open quantum hardware ecosystem to assembling a working quantum computer in just four months, Qbit Force is redefining how deep...
(L-R) Nikesh Gondchawar, Strategic & Technical Advisor – Robotics Manufacturing; Shrikrushna Kakade, Founder Partner; Nikhil Kakade, Senior Technical Advisor – Robotics & Control Systems, SlightGen Solutions LLP

“A Made-In-India Robotic PCB Soldering System That Automates The Through-Hole Soldering Process!” – Shrikrushna...

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Electronics manufacturing is complex, and automation often comes at a high cost. To bridge this gap and offer a more affordable solution in India,...

Startups

Manivannan Subramaniam, Director R&D, CIYES Systems

“We Want to Build Globally Competitive Deep-Tech Products from India” –  Manivannan Subramaniam, CIYES...

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Can India build globally competitive deep-tech products? Manivannan Subramaniam of CIYES Systems believes it can. In this interview with EFY's Nitisha Dubey, he discusses...

Raptee.HV, Rajalakshmi Engineering College Launch EV Centre of Excellence

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The facility is among the first initiatives under Raptee.HV Academy Raptee.HV has launched a Centre of Excellence for Electric Mobility at Rajalakshmi Engineering College (REC),...

Agnikul Cosmos Opens New Facilities to Advance Reusable Rocket Development

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STIF has been designed and fabricated in-house to test complete reusable rocket stages under flight-like conditions Indian space-tech company Agnikul Cosmos has inaugurated two new...

Zenergize Technologies Raises $4 Million Pre-Series A to Scale SiC Power Electronics

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The fundraise comes after a year of rapid product development and commercialisation Zenergize Technologies, an R&D-driven deep-tech company developing indigenous Silicon Carbide (SiC)-based power electronics,...
Gadhadar Reddy, Co-Founder and CEO, NoPo Nanotechnologies

Nopo Nanotechnologies’ Carbon Nanotubes Turn ‘Not Possible’ To ‘Now Possible’

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Can single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) significantly improve EV batteries? This startup says it has turned what was once considered ‘not possible’ into ‘now possible.’ An...