Maruti Suzuki responds to G-NCAP crash tests

“NCAP assumes all regulators world over really don’t know their business”, says Maruti Suzuki chairman R C Bhargava. Responding to questions about the recent G-NCAP crash test results at the annual media meet he said: “Nobody looks at why do accidents happen in India. When you really think of it should safety not be related to preventing accidents?”

“There are two major areas we [India] are way behind others”

When it comes to #drifting control is everything. And when it comes to control, the tyres are everything For setting India’s longest #drift record @VredesteinIndia hooked us up with 3 sets of ultra-high-performance Ultrac Vorti tyres. For an automotive journalist this is mana from heaven — “Here’s 15 #Vredestein tyres for you, Sirish. Go nuts with them” 😎

Plenty of comments on my recent post on #hybrid, especially from #EV enthusiasts — here’s some facts & figures:

1. The automotive value chain - 50% of revenue & 60% of employment goes into the IC engine + transmission so.... what happens to all the jobs if we move to EV?
1/7 The current infrastructure for IC vs EV isn’t so relevant, cause infra can be scaled up very quickly.
What you should look at is where is 🇮🇳 on the raw materials required for EVs, localisation of electric vehicle components & the sort.
Batteries, btw, are 50% of EV cost
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