Seoul, July 12 (IANS) Eco-friendly vehicles accounted for half of new car registrations in South Korea in the first half of this year, driven by a sharp increase in electric vehicle (EV) sales, an auto market tracker said on Sunday.It marked the first time that eco-friendly vehicles made up more than half of new car registrations during the January-June period, according to the CarIsYou Data Research Center, which cited government data, reports Yonhap news agency.In the first six months of the y…
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New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) Electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla on Monday announced the launch of North India’s first in-mall charging facility here, as the company continues to expand its charging infrastructure in the country.The new charging location is equipped with six destination chargers (AC, 11 kW each), enabling Tesla owners to charge their vehicles while shopping or dining.The facility — which launched at Nexus Select CityWalk — is designed to offer high reliability, with 99.95 per cent u…
New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) China’s President Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasised at high-level meetings with world leaders and corporate heads that his country is keen to attract foreign investments, even though recent events have brought into question the safety and viability of those potential investments, according to an article in The Diplomat.It highlights that world’s top business leaders that Jinping has addressed at meetings in recent months include Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX, Jens…
New Delhi, June 28 (IANS) Elon Musk on Sunday announced that xAI’s latest artificial intelligence model, Grok 4.5, has entered private beta testing at SpaceX and Tesla, marking the first confirmed deployment of the model within Musk’s companies ahead of a wider release.In a post on social media platform X, Musk said Grok 4.5 is based on xAI’s 1.5-trillion-parameter V9 foundation model and has undergone supplemental training using data from AI coding assistant Cursor.According to Musk, early eval…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Tesla on Friday announced the launch of the Model Y Premium Rear-Wheel Drive in India, expanding its electric vehicle portfolio in the country with a new premium variant of the segment.The new model has a starting price of Rs 50.89 lakh, and deliveries will commence in India from July 2026, according to the company.The newly launched variant introduces a range of hardware and design upgrades aimed at improving performance, comfort and interior experience. It boasts an al…
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) Rising concerns over fuel prices and the government’s strong push for clean mobility are accelerating the demand for electric vehicles (EVs) in Gujarat’s Surat, where buyers are increasingly shifting towards EVs due to lower running costs, tax benefits and improving charging infrastructure.Speaking to IANS on the growing popularity of EVs, Assistant RTO Ankit Shah said people have strongly supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to adopt electric mobility a…
Seoul, May 20 (IANS) South Korea’s auto exports decreased more than 5 per cent from a year earlier in April, amid a sharp decrease in shipments to the Middle East due to a geopolitical crisis there, government data showed on Wednesday. But with higher oil prices caused by the Mideast crisis, domestic sales of electric vehicles increased sharply.The combined value of automobile exports came to $6.17 billion last month, down 5.5 per cent from the same month last year, according to the data from th…
New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) Elon Musk-backed Tesla on Thursday opened its first experience centre in Bengaluru’s Whitefield area, a major step in the electric vehicle maker’s expansion plans in India.The company said customers will now be able to experience the Model Y and the newly introduced Model Y L — priced starting at Rs 61.99 lakh (ex-showroom) — at the new facility located in the city’s technology hub.Tesla also announced the launch of its after-sales service network in Whitefield t…
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) China is currently leveraging its driven by its dominance in critical minerals inputs required for the production in sectors such as New Energy Vehicles (NEV) to gain a geopolitical advantage through its capability to disrupt global supply chains.However, according to an article in The Diplomat, this advantage is likely to be overturned in the near future with the leap in new technology that is taking place in Western countries, with companies such as US tech giant Tesla…
Seoul, May 4 (IANS) Sales of Hyundai Motor and Kia vehicles in the United States fell slightly from a year earlier, while numbers for hybrid vehicles rose to a new monthly high, the automaker said on Monday.The South Korean automakers sold a combined 159,216 vehicles in the key American market in April, down 2.1 percent on-year, according to the companies.Hyundai Motor sold 86,513 units, down 1.5 percent from the previous year, reports Yonhap news agency.Its luxury vehicle brand Genesis sold 6,3…