Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have advanced the use of DuAlumin-3D for high-temperature automotive components, opening new possibilities for stronger, lighter 3D-printed aluminium parts in engines and beyond. Aluminium has long been attractive for automotive components because it...
India’s public-sector banks have proposed putting electric vehicles, charging networks, battery-swapping infrastructure and climate-transition projects into a clearer priority-sector lending framework. The plan could direct more formal credit toward the systems needed to scale electric mobility,...
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A 4,000 tonnes per year aluminium alloy component project of Chongqing Hanlir Machinery Manufacturing will reportedly commence soon as its Environmental Impact Assessment Report has been approved and published by the government of Jiangjin District, Chongqing, on April 29. The construction of the...
The Indian automotive industry has urged the government for permission to restart manufacturing operations, as it has recorded zero sales in the domestic market in the first month of FY2021. According to a report, the industry has been tentatively losing over INR 2,300 crore turnover a day since...
India’s one of the leading automaker Mahindra & Mahindra, is selling its brand Roxor in the United States with a slew of aftermarket options as it can be customized to suit the requirements of the buyers, as the accessories range from new decals to wraps. The Roxor competes against mainly...
Electric cars having no internal combustion engines does not make it safer, as it is broadly accepted that if a battery catches fire, the outcome is much more catastrophic than a gasoline explosion. Volvo Cars' EV brand Polestar has done this by incorporating the battery within the structure of its...
Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, an Indian multinational automobile manufacturing corporation headquartered in Mumbai, India, develops a mHawk range of engines. It is a significant engine for the company and has been enhancing over the years. The Scorpio is known to be very famous in rural areas. It is...
The Salzburger Aluminium Group (SAG), the makers of aluminium tanks for commercial vehicles and producer of aluminium components, headquartered in Austria, is strongly unified into the international supply chains of OEMs, and therefore the close down on customer side also made it necessary to...
The Japanese domestic car production in March’20 has declined against a year earlier, squeezed by sluggish global and domestic sales due to the impact of the Covid-19 rife. The domestic production of the country's eight-car manufacturers has shown drop by 8% against the preceding year to around...
According to a recent report, the metal additive producing group Amaero International has inked an agreement with a major global automotive manufacturer to jointly develop 3D printed tooling. According to the Australia-headquartered group, the inclusion of additive-manufactured inserts for tools...
Electric vehicle sales in India have reportedly recorded a growth of 20 per cent to 156,000 units in the financial year 2019-20, largely driven by the sales of electric two-wheelers that form bulk of the nascent industry. Of 156,000 units, electric two-wheelers sales accounted for 152,000 units...
New-car sales in Europe’s major markets in March dwindled by 52 per cent, attributing to the lockdowns imposed for the containment of COVID19, showed a data on Friday, April 17. Registrations dropped to 853,077 vehicles in the European Union, Britain, and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA)...
The global aluminium prices are falling and the surfeit inventories are inclining up rapidly, though the market has not yet entered the catastrophe situation that despoiled the global market in 2008, a year is known for recession. The COVID-19 breakout has stroked out aluminium in the worst...
Central Europe’s some of biggest car-makers have declared their plans to re-start production weeks after closing down the plants due to the COVID-19 epidemic. This announcement has generated a ray of hope in the Aluminium downstream sector that supports the auto industry by supplying die-casting...
On Tuesday, April 14, China’s State Grid announced to invest RMB 2.7 billion in total to construct charging piles. It said it plans to build 78,000 charging piles in 2020, which is 10 times more than the addition last year. The state-owned electric utility giant also announced that it would kick...
According to the latest data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) on Thursday, April 9, China’s wholesale deliveries of new energy passenger vehicles totalled at 56,000 units in March, down 49.2 per cent from the same period last year but grew by about three times from the last month....
The downfall in the aluminium industry could be traced back to the global financial crisis last year that forced many automobile companies and the construction projects to reduce or shut operations, resulting in demand crunch for the lightweight metal, according to Bloomberg observation. The...
BMW Motorrad has disclosed the production-spec R18 cruiser, months after it showcased the smashing R18 concept at the 2019 EICMA. The concept was undoubtedly one of the best-looking motorcycles at the show. BMW has chosen from the wide catalogue of bolt-on aluminium parts to choose from, supplied...
Toyota Motor Corporation has reportedly won the Okochi Memorial Production Prize in the 66th (2019) Okochi Memorial Prize awards for developing an innovative aluminium casting technology. The technology is for improving the plant environment and product functionality. The award has been presented...
The new Rolls-Royce Ghost will be reinforced by a new manifested platform that has been developed in-house but will share quite a few components with the Phantom and Cullinan. The new aluminium platform equipped in the ghost will make the model lighter than the outgoing one. Rolls-Royce has been...
