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FY2024 India auto sales rise 12% to 23.85 million units | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

The Indian automobile industry has wrapped up FY2024 with total wholesale vehicle dispatches of 23.85 COMMERCIAL VEHICLES: 967,878 units / up 0.56% This is the sector which spells the health of the country’s economy. Motorcycles, with 1,16,53,237 units, accounted for 65% of total sales and saw YoY growth of 14%.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). This is unusual. Vice Chairman Bob Lutz in GMs FastLane blog ).

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

based technology will actually achieve any economy in production. It was a Manufacturing Failure, as GM NEVER planned to build the car in Volume, so No Economies of Scale were ever achieved. If no one wants your car (because people think it sucks), then no one will buy it, regardless of how good the fuel economy may or may not be.

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