The way someone explained it to me is like this. Performance (as in, quick pick up and acceleration), fuel efficiency and emissions are the three parameters that define an automobile. You can control any two but not all three. VW chose to control, for obvious reasons, performance and fuel efficiency and bid goodbye to emissions. Of course when vehicles were tested on treadmills, the company sacrificed engine performance. But they reckoned without some Asst Prof of West Virginia University, designing a test kit that would attach itself to the tailpipe of a car and analyse the emission. The rest is history.suryag wrote:Dumb question why did they have to turn off the emission controls in real world would it be a loss of power if these emission controls are turned on ?
nope, they have just released the RS200 and is expected to release re-engined avengers soon.SaiK wrote:did bajaj came out with their new cruiser pulsar cs 400 yet?
True. Maybe next time. It was quite hectic as it is. We took a day trip from Goa to Karwar and Gokarna and back.You could have taken a day more and done badami, aihole, pattadakal also...its so far out other than staging it via hampi trip its impossible for standalone
And pretty diverse too. The Bangalore-Mysore belt is quite different from the belt running roughly from Bangalore all the way up to the old Hyd-KTK regions where the population and culture is a very mixed one of Kannada and Telugu and the coastal belt , which again is distinct, with the regions to the leeward side of the western ghats largely clustering with the Mysore kind of regions.Ka is a giant state.
Exactly why having Bangalore as the Capital, at the southern most tip, surrounded largely by TN and Andhra on 3 sides and far away from the Northern and coastal regions is probably a Meh.From blr to mh border Bijapur adilabad is a days full drive in car
and CM retains intel.A one-time charge of Rs 2,493 crore related to the destruction of 5,800 Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) vehicles in a blast at the Chinese port of Tianjin has dragged Tata Motors into the red. The company posted an unexpected consolidated net loss of Rs 430 crore in the second quarter of fiscal 2016 compared to the Rs 3,290 crore profit a year earlier.
The company said they are writing off the inventory even though the insurance claim is being processed. Having said that it is rare for a company to be making loss provision before the claim is actually repudiated. But then this is China. You never know. You will assume the worst while hoping for the best.ashish raval wrote:^^ don't tell me that those brand new cars are uninsured for fire and blast damage in transit!!
Actually in Accounting, you make the loss provision and if the claim gets approved taqke it as Income. Since Insurance will take a year, it is prudent to account this way.nandakumar wrote:The company said they are writing off the inventory even though the insurance claim is being processed. Having said that it is rare for a company to be making loss provision before the claim is actually repudiated. But then this is China. You never know. You will assume the worst while hoping for the best.ashish raval wrote:^^ don't tell me that those brand new cars are uninsured for fire and blast damage in transit!!
This is standard practice. The banks/risk management team will make sure that the goods are always under insured facilities, they look at every aspect including workers comp. Infact we are currently pursuing a proposal a large manufacturing MNC that wants to conduct a risk assessment on their global SC as a art of the risks identification and remediation program.Theo_Fidel wrote:^^^
This is a common problem and this is why there are things called bonded warehouses USA/EU/India that cover the insurance gap. hope JLR used a bonded warehouse, else they might find themselves at the mercy of the China system which will change rules to suit themselves....
S&P said, it is currently unclear the types of policies that will be affected – property insurance policies or marine cargo policies. This will depend on whether the destroyed assets were in transit and covered by marine insurance, said S&P, noting that a standard marine cargo policy often covers onshore storage of up to 30 days.
However, the ratings agency said, market information suggests that majority of claims may be in the property insurance category, if most of the goods, especially the local and imported cars, were at the storage stage onshore. “Losses from damages to neighboring buildings, construction sites, or infrastructure will fall under the usual property and construction insurance cover.”
The government has decided to advance the deadline for implementation of higher vehicle emission norms by three years to address the deteriorating air quality.
India, which currently follows Bharat Stage (BS) IV norms in many cities, will move to BS V norms from April 2019, against an earlier timeline of April 2022. Similarly, the BS VI norm will now come into effect from April 2021, as against April 2024. The ministry of road transport and highways has issued a draft notification in the same regard. BS IV will be extended to the entire country by April 2017. The draft norms for two- and three-wheeler categories will be notified shortly with advanced timelines similar to the four-wheeler category.
“The minister of road transport and highways [Nitin Gadkari] is keen that the road transport sector should take a lead role in reducing the harmful effects of emissions on environment and climate change”, said a government statement.
The move from BS III to IV is supposed to bring down the particulate matter from cars to half (0.0250 gm/km) and to one-fifth in commercial vehicles (0.02 gm/km). A shift to BS V will mean further reduction from 0.0250 gm/km to 0.0045 gm/km in case of cars.
But no gain is expected in case of commercial vehicles. The shift to BS VI will reduce particulate matter from commercial vehicles to half (0.01 gm/km) but keep the emission from cars unchanged.
Volkswagen Group India has recalled approximately 3,23,700 cars fitted with 1.2-litre, 1.5-litre, 1.6-litre, and 2.0-litre EA 189 diesel engines that were manufactured and sold between 2008 and November 2015. A communication program is being devised to reach out to the owners of cars with EA 189 engines through the group’s respective brands.
While the official statement had no mention of any technical fix for the cars affected by the recall, it is learned that the solution developed at the company’s head office in Germany will be applied to cars in India as well.
The company had in a media statement said the EA 189 1.6-litre engine will feature a ‘flow transformer’ that will be installed in front of the air flow sensor to stabilise air flow and enable a more precise measurement of the incoming fresh air flow. This will help the fuel to be metered more accurately.
According to the company, the 2.0-litre diesel engine will only need a software upgrade, while the 1.6-litre EA 189 diesel engine will be subject to a hardware and software fix.
Volkswagen had been studying the air intake system for the EA 189 engine and decided that the air flow transformer would be the most efficient solution to reduce the emission level and bring it at par with globally accepted limits. The installation of the flow transformer and the software alteration to the 1.6-litre engine is expected to take around an hour, while the 2.0-litre engine — that will receive only a software upgrade — will be serviced to make it compatible with emission norms in as little as 30 minutes.
India also gets a 4-cylinder, 1.5-litre derivative of the 1.6-litre engine which expands the EA 189 engine range to four — 1.2-litre, 1.5-litre, 1.6-litre, and 2.0-litre displacement engines. While there is already a technical solution for 1.6-litre and 2.0-litre engines, a solution for the 3-cylinder 1.2-litre diesel engine is still being developed.
In September 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States found out that cars across the Volkswagen Group portfolio were being fitted with a ‘defeat device’ — a software that modified its performance when it sensed being run in ‘test condition’ by monitoring speed, engine operation, and even steering wheel position.
Volkswagen admitted to the malpractice and said about 11 million cars worldwide were fitted with the ‘defeat device’.
The EA 189 engine was found to emit nitrogen oxide up to 40 times above the norms.
In a recent development, Volkswagen’s global CEO, Matthias Müller, announced a cap on planned investments in “property, plant and equipment, investment property and intangible assets, excluding capitalised development costs (capex)” to the tune of Euro 1 billion to approximately Euro 12 billion (against the previous estimate of Euro 13 billion), while committing to the development of alternate drive technologies by increasing the expenditure on technology by approximately Euro 100 million.
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The Multistrada is now equipped with an inertial measurement unit, an IMU, which keeps tabs on the bike’s lean angle, as well as roll, pitch and yaw rate. The IMU-enabled stability system, supplied by Bosch, interacts with antilock braking and traction control/throttle management, all in an effort to keep either wheel from sliding out from under you while cornering.
Indian Space Research Organisation scientists, in collaboration with the ministry and other wings, have developed the batteries costing Rs 5 lakh -- about a tenth of the astronomical Rs. 55 lakh for imported ones, he has said.
Why is ISRO the one doing research on batteries? What are the auto companies doing?He also lauded the role of ISRO scientists who have developed the indigenous lithium ion battery at a low cost of Rs 5-6 lakh in comparison to a huge Rs 50 lakh for the imported ones as the patent is being registered.
What does it involve to convert a diesel bus to an all electric one?"An imported electric bus costs about Rs 1.75 crore whereas the one converted indigenously will cost about Rs 60 lakh, the price of which is likely to be reduced further on technology advancement," he said.
"The government wants to convert about 1.5 lakh state transport corporation buses into electric ones. We would like to convert buses operated by STUs in the next two years to electric mode. We are exploring innovative low-cost funding for this project," he said.
