Electric Vehicles
Mercedes Benz EQB: Go for Rose Gold
Fads come and go but frankly, one fad that I didn’t really think much of, until only a few years back, when it arrived on the scene, was the colour, Rose Gold. However, this was before I saw an Italian manufacturer of fine writing instruments offering this pen in Rose Gold. Back then, this colour was aimed…
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“EQS 580 4MATIC is the next level of engineering and technology”: Santosh Iyer
Mercedes-Benz India, rolled out their first ever locally manufactured EV, the EQS 580 4MATIC, in India today, and to do the honours was Nitin Gadkari, Honourable Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Govt. of India. Not only is India the first country besides Germany, to manufacture the EQS 580 4MATIC, but the sedan also happens…
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Mahindra XUV400: The New Disruptor?
There’s a new arrival on the Indian EV scene – Mahindra XUV400 – and boy is it fast! We drove the XUV400 at MSPT (Mahindra SUV Proving Track), in Chennai, recently and were blown away by its scorching performance. Here’s what we think of Mahindra’s latest EV offering which is here to take on Hyundai Kona,…
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The Road Ahead
At the launch of Mahindra XUV400, Rajesh Jejurikar, Executive Director, Auto & Farm Sectors spoke to TURN OF SPEED about their two-part electric strategy for their gasoline and diesel vehicles as well as their “Born Electric” platform. “We have two parts to our electric strategy. First is what you’re seeing right now – the XUV400, which is…
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Mahindra XUV 400: Three Cheers!
Talking about the XUV400, R Velusamy, President, Automotive Technology & Product Development, M&M Ltd., says that they started work on XUV400 three years back. “The XUV400 is a typical ICE Converted SUV, a typical intermediary step. We take an ICE vehicle, do a battery fitment, specific to that vehicle and then convert it to electric,”…
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To the Moon and Back
Can there possibly be anything more thrilling than waking up in the morning and flying out to the capital just to slide cars? Well, that’s exactly what we did recently. A few kilometers away from the capital, in Gurugram, we got a taste of not one, not two, but three totally droolworthy mean machines that…
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Sony’s Electric Car Plans: Ambitious and Achievable?
In 2020, Sony surprised the world with a beautifully designed electric car – the Vision-S concept. The Vision-S is a sleek electric sedan that packs in a lot of cool technologies. Recently, the consumer electronics giant unveiled yet another concept EV, the Sony Vision-S 02, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2022) in Las Vegas.…
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V Will Rock You
Chunky Vazirani’s hypercar, Shul, has been work in progress ever since it debuted in 2018, but now his latest car, E-Konk, which derives its name from the word, Ek Onkar, and means “One Energy,” is in the News again. We caught up with Chunky Vazirani, at his design studio, in one of Andheri’s bustling industrial estates, where he and…
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METAMORPHOSIS
Just like many in India have lived to tell their great grandchildren the story of how pigeons delivered letters during their days before email became de riguer, many out there, will live to tell the story of how their journey from the days of bullock carts metamorphosed into Electric Vehicles (EVs). For now, let us dive…
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The Times They’re A-Changin
In this interview with TURN OF SPEED, Vivek B. Srivatsa, Head, Marketing, Passenger & Electric Vehicles Business Unit, Tata Motors, tells us about the newly launched Tata Tigor EV – their second offering in a market where many car manufacturers are yet to launch a personal EV – and about how Tata Motors is inviting Indians…
