Ola Electric is making a renewed push into the electric motorcycle market with aggressive pricing and in-house battery manufacturing, aiming to replicate its earlier success in electric scooters while addressing past quality and service issues.
In doing so, Bajaj has become the first internal combustion engine two-wheeler company to launch an all-electric two-wheeler in India.
Royal Enfield sees its scale and dominant market share as adequate buffers against Bajaj's recent challenges, says Ajay Modi.
Fuel efficiency was the platform that had been built by the market leader in the segment, fun was the Discover domain. By diluting the message, the brand lost its old customers and pushed potential buyers into the leader's fold.
Euro NCAP had said it was disappointed to see quadricycles, including the Bajaj Qute, lack basic safety features.
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Bajaj Auto, said the company might re-enter the scooter market and if and when it does, the iconic Chetak might be revived.
The Qute infant of the four-wheel world is Bajaj Auto's quadricycle. The Qute infant of the four-wheel world is Bajaj Auto's quadricycle. It is finally set to hit the India roads but the challenge of creating a new category in the competitive automobile market has only just begun.
Those that are developing quadricycles from scratch say it will take them at least two years to roll them out.
Stung by the government's punitive action on electric two-wheelers, registrations in April fell by nearly a fourth to 62,581 from 82,292 in March, according to data from VAHAN. Electric two-wheeler companies, including Okinawa, Hero Electric, Ather Energy, and TVS, have all clocked their lowest registrations in the four months of this calendar year. Ola Electric has been the only exception to this bloodbath, and has crossed its March numbers, hitting 21,560 registrations in April, which is its highest in this calendar year. As a result, there have been some interesting changes in the electric two-wheeler pecking order.
It is expected to be ready by 2017.
Irrespective of demonetisation and GST blues, IIM Lucknow has been able to successfully place their batch of 459 students.
At present, there are many vehicles that weigh close to the proposed increased weight of 600 kg.
'I think some of us, like Mukesh Ambani, myself and those of us who head industrial units, ought to really focus on what we can really do to make the world a safer place, maybe 50 or 100 years from now.' 'For instance, how can we deal with climate change and global warming, right now?' 'The effects of it may not be felt now; in fact, we may pay a price for it today, but it will help the generations to follow.'
...followed by financial services, IT, and sales and marketing.
By 2025, Uber projects that 25,000-30,000 cars -- or 12 to 16 per cent of vehicle additions -- would be EVs, reports Surajeet Das Gupta.
These bikes are a good mixture of style, mileage, performance and affordability, says Rajesh Alva.
A series of flip-flop on policies and a non-existent charging infrastructure are the biggest challenge in achieving the target of selling 6-7 million hybrid and electric vehicles by 2020.
As a tech services company, Ola has never been in hardcore manufacturing. And unlike in ride hailing, which is a two-player market (Uber is the only other competitor), in two-wheelers it faces many entrenched players. But most of all, rivals say Ola's targets are out of sync with most, even ambitious, projections.
At Rs 52,610 (on-road, Mumbai), the attractive pricing, refined engine and good manoeuvrability makes the Platina 100 ES emerge as a value for money package and a worthy competitor to the offerings from Hero MotoCorp and Honda.
Renault Kwid is a good entry-level car for Indian roads.
M&M will close down GenZe, an e-scooter business in California, because it is unlikely it would stand on its own feet, and is ahead of its time.
The distinction between "cheap" and "affordable" is a fine one, but no one understands this better than India's aspirational first-time car-owner, says Kanika Datta.
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