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The Global New Car Assessment Programme (Global NCAP) under its Safer Car for India Mission has crash-tested various made-in-India cars and ranked them. The participating vehicles have been evaluated in terms of the safety of adult passengers and child occupants in a crash where only the front two airbags were functional.The list has largely been dominated by Indian automakers such as Mahindra and Tata Motors. If want to buy a new car and wish to know the safety standards of vehicles in the market, check out the list…

Tata Motors has announced a partnership with Lithium Urban Technologies, an EV-based urban transportation service provider which will deploy 5000 XPRES T Electric Sedans, across the country, for employee transportation. Tata Motors will commence deliveries in phases and will complete the deployment by next year. In July 2021, Tata Motors launched the ‘XPRES’ brand, exclusively for fleet customers and the XPRES-T EV is the first vehicle under this brand. The new XPRES-T electric sedan comes with 2 range options – 213km and…

Keyless entry is a very attractive feature in modern-day cars. What is generally seen are key fobs, a remote control with an RFID chip, that allows you to start the car without punching a key into the keyhole.South Korean automaker Hyundai seems to have outgrown the key fobs as the company eyes at patenting iris scanning technology, which once approved, will be introduced to the vehicles on the company’s production chain, reported The Drive. The iris scanner will allow the owner to enter and start the car with just a…

Tata Motors has been on a roll recently as the company has been sharing its ambitious plans for their future cars. This started with the unveiling of the Tata Curvv concept which, as per the company, showcased their Gen 2 platform that would underpin cars that are expected to be launched in the Indian market in 2024. Now, the company has showcased the Tata Avinya concept that debuts the Gen 3 platform, cars based on which will be expected to come out by 2025.Avinya in Sanskrit stands for innovation. Tata Motors is…

Tesla confirmed that nearly half of all its vehicles produced last quarter are already using cobalt-free iron-phosphate (LFP) batteries. The information also gives us an interesting insight into Tesla’s mix of models, which is generally quite opaque. Over the last few years, CEO Elon Musk has said multiple times that Tesla plans to shift more electric cars to LFP batteries in order to overcome nickel and cobalt supply concerns. Iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, which don’t use nickel or cobalt, are traditionally…

A lot of the focus in 2022 has been on Mercedes' huge porpoising problems and that's not wrong, given how dramatically off the pace Lewis Hamilton and George Russell have looked this year at times. But after three races, Red Bull is looking like it might have pace but not reliability, after two AlphaTauri and three Red Bull failures, the latest seeing Max Verstappen retire from the Australian Grand Prix.In Formula 1 there's two things you need to win a race: a fast car and to see the checkered flag. Points aren't awarded…

Tesla boss Elon Musk has flown to Germany to present customers with the first Model Y vehicles built at the automaker’s new Giga Berlin plant — its first car factory in Europe. Musk tweeted that he’ll be handing over the production cars to the new owners at a special event at the site on Tuesday, March 22. Excited to hand over the first production cars made by Giga Berlin-Brandenburg tomorrow! — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 21, 2022 The event comes just a few days after the factory received final approval…

A burning cargo ship carrying thousands of luxury cars has sunk in the Atlantic Ocean. The Felicity Ace vessel was reportedly carrying around 4,000 vehicles — among them Porsche, Audi, Bentley, and Lamborghini vehicles — worth an estimated $400 million. The Panama-flagged, MOL Ship Management-operated ship and its consignment of expensive vehicles sank near the Azores around 900 miles west of Portugal on Tuesday, March 1, Reuters reported. It now lies on the seabed some 3,000 meters down. Joao Mendes Cabecas, the…

Motorists can sit back and watch TV once self-driving cars are approved on British roads but will be banned from using handheld mobile phones, government plans revealed Wednesday. The Department for Transport set out changes to The Highway Code to "help ensure the first wave of self-driving vehicles are used safely". A DfT spokesman confirmed that in self-driving mode, users would…

Ferrari has issued a recall plan with Chinese regulators over potential brake problems, affecting more than 2,200 vehicles. Italian luxury carmaker Ferrari has issued a recall plan with Chinese regulators over potential brake problems in its vehicles, an official notice said Friday. The recall affects…