Technology

Cyrus Dhabhar

Oct 18, 2018, 9:41 PM

Exclusive: Bosch 'eAxle' Electric Car Prototype First Drive

We keep hearing electric cars are the future. But while we wait in vain for real-world mass application solutions, it would seem Bosch has an intelligent idea to retrofit even existing cars to go green. Whether it is Tesla or the Volkswagen Group or Mercedes-Benz globally, or Tata Motors and Mahindra in India - all are striving towards cleaner mobility solutions. And they too are relying on a lot of the innovation happening - not in their own labs, but at the supplier end with component makers stepping up their game. Enter Bosch.

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  car&bike Team | Oct 15, 2018

  KYMCO, Twenty Two Motors Join Hands To Make Electric Scooters In India

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  car&bike Team | Oct 12, 2018

  2018 Datsun GO And GO+ Come With Dual Airbags And ABS As Standard

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  car&bike Team | Oct 12, 2018

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  car&bike Team | Oct 11, 2018

  Mahindra Launches A New Leasing Scheme To Retail Its SUVs

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  car&bike Team | Oct 6, 2018

  General Motors' Cadillac Edges Tesla In Semi-Automated Driving Test

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  car&bike Team | Oct 1, 2018

  Volkswagen And Microsoft Announce Strategic Partnership

  From 2020, more than 5 million new Volkswagen-brand vehicles per year will be fully connected and will be part of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the cloud. Together, the two companies will develop the technological basis for a comprehensive industrial automotive cloud.

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  car&bike Team | Sep 26, 2018

  Vazirani Shul Electric Hypercar Unveiled In India

  India's first all-electric hypercar, Vazirani Shul, was today officially unveiled in the country. Designed and developed by Vazirani Automotive, which is headed by designer and co-founder Chunky Vazirani.

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  car&bike Team | Sep 26, 2018

  Indian Cars To Get Safer, Electronic Stability Control To Become Mandatory Soon

  Speaking at the Global NCAP's Stop The Crash event at BIC, Abhay Damle, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways said that India will have ESC and autonomous braking as mandatory features by 2023.

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