Commercial Vehicles

Eicher Trucks and Buses, a division of VE Commercial Vehicles, announced the launch of its electric-first range of Small Commercial Vehicles (SCVs), the Eicher Pro X Range, at the Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025.

VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd.,a joint venture between the Volvo Group and Eicher Motors has displayed the next generation Volvo and Eicher buses at Prawaas 4.0.

Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), the market leader in Small Commercial Vehicles (SCVs) in India, has announced the launch of new variants of Bolero MaXXPik-Up range. This latest addition aims to offer enhanced comfort to ...

Eicher Trucks and Buses, a division of VE Commercial Vehicles, announced its entry into the Small Commercial Vehicle (SCV) segment with the Global Unveil of its EV-First Eicher Truck at Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2...

At JK Tyre, India's premier tyre manufacturer, launched 11 new Off-the-Road (OTR) tyres at the 12th edition of South Asia’s largest construction equipment trade fair, CII EXCON 2023, in Bangalore. The new addition t...

Ashok Leyland unveiled the AL H6 Diesel – CEV Stage V engine along with other innovative products at EXCON 2023.

Leading rating and research firm ICRA foresees electric buses (e-buses) to be at the forefront of India’s electrification drive, with the segment expected to witness healthy traction going forward. ICRA estimates e-...

Pinnacle Industries, India’s leading manufacturer of automotive interiors, seating systems, EV components and specialty vehicles, has announced the introduction of advanced seating systems for select Vande Bharat Ex...

The Indian commercial vehicle industry witnessed a resurgence in terms of sales for the month of May 2023 (YOY) with the 3 wheeler and commercial vehicle sales recording growth rates of 79%, and 7% respectively. Th...

According to the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) Vehicle Retail Data for May’23, tractor sales have grown by 10 per cent YOY. Mahindra & Mahindra is the absolute leader in tractor sales in the c...

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV), a 100% subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG announced that - despite supply chain headwinds and adverse cost environment – 2022 was one of the most successful business years since...

Netherlands headquartered Solis Tractors & Agricultural Machinery, which is a part of International Tractors Limited (ITL) (popularly known as Sonlika Group based out of Hoshiarpur in Punjab) , has acquired Germany ...

EKA, an electric vehicle manufacturer and a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries, received the CMVR certification for its 2.5-ton GVM electric light commercial vehicle from the Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT...

The commercial vehicle (CV) segment grew by a whopping 33pc in Nov 2022, as per the retail sales data released by the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA).

Astro Navya, an electric 3 wheeler, manufactured by Astro Motors, successfully set the record, of reaching the world’s highest motorable road at Umling La Pass, located in Ladakh at 19,024 FT. By achieving this feat...

VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd. (A Volvo Group and Eicher Motors joint venture) recorded sales of 5982 units in July 2022 as compared to 4271 units in July 2021 recording a growth of 40.1%. This includes 5861 units of E...

Except for tractors, commercial vehicles comprising of 3 wheelers, trucks and buses showed a downward trend in retail sales in May 2022 as compared to month of May 2019, the year without the pandemic. This was accor...

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. (DICV), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG, announced its achievement of 48% growth in wholesales in 2021 by selling 14,222 trucks. The manufacturer of BharatBe...

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.’s Farm Equipment Sector (FES), part of the Mahindra Group, recorded domestic sales of 39405 units in April 2022, as against 26130 units during April 2021.

Commercial vehicle manufacturers in the country continued to show steady progress in their domestic as well as exports for the month of April 2022

Rural sentiments continued to have its impact on the Indian tractor industry as this segment recorded a negative 10.32 per cent slump in retail sales for December 2021, as compared to December 2020, according to the...

Unlike sentiments in the passenger vehicles and two-wheeler segments, the commercial vehicles (CV) and 3 wheeler segments showed a positive growth in retail sales for the month of December 2021, as compared to Dec 2...

Commercial EV manufacturer Altigreen is all set to deliver more than 1500 road-ready EVs to MoEVing in 2022. It has bagged an order worth Rs 75 crore and is ramping up its manufacturing capabilities to begin deliver...

Maruti Suzuki Super Carry, the mini-truck from Maruti Suzuki stable, has recently achieved the record milestone of 100,000 cumulative unit sales in just 5 years of its launch. It is the only mini-truck in India that...

Hero Electric, India's largest electric two-wheeler company, has announced its partnership with Bangalore-based electric mobility rental start-up Bykemania. To keep up with the growing demand, Bykemania has successf...

Maruti Suzuki India’s mini truck Super Carry is celebrating four years since its launch in 2016. It was the country’s first light commercial mini-truck available in petrol and CNG. The Super Carry today has a 20% ma...

Mahindra Electric Mobility Ltd announced that its lithium-ion battery powered electric 3-wheeler range, the Mahindra Treo, has crossed the 5,000-unit sales milestone in India. The country’s switch to EVs is being le...

Leading tractor manufacturing brand & No.1 exporter from the country, Sonalika tractors registered an overall growth (Domestic + Exports) of 18.6% with sale of 9177 tractors in May 2020 as compared to 7737 tractors ...

Tata Motors Limited recorded a massive (-) 87 per cent fall in sales of commercial vehicles for the month of March 2020 at a mere 7123 units in March 2020 as compared to 56,536 units for March 2019. As for the finan...

DOT, a green mobility solutions provider to major e-commerce and food-tech aggregators via hi-speed electric 2 & 3 wheelers has expanded its operations to two new cities, taking its current footprint to 30 cities in...

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. recorded a 17 per cent drop in domestic sales of commercial vehicles in July 2019. In July 2019, the company sold 15969 units as against 19284 units in July 2018. Medium & Heavy Commercial ...

The domestic sales of Ashok Leyland trucks dropped by 29 per cent in July 2019 to 10101 units as compared to 14205 units in July 2018. The medium and heavy commercial vehicle trucks sales stood at 4668 units in June...

Swaraj Tractors, a part of the Mahindra Group announced that it had crossed a production milestone of 15 lakh tractors since its inception over four decades ago.

Mahindra & Mahindra announced that it had become the first Indian tractor brand to rollout 3 million tractors. Mahindra is currently the world’s largest farm tractor manufacturer by volume and India’s leading tracto...

Leading tyre manufacturer and pioneers of radial technology in India, JK Tyre and Industries Limited, achieved a remarkable feat by entering the prestigious Limca Book of Records with the country’s largest off-the-r...

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) - the wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler AG, the world’s leading CV manufacturer with a global reach – recorded its best-ever business results in the year 2018. As planned, t...

John Deere, a leading tractor manufacturer in India launched a new model of tractor 3028 EN on the occasion of completing 20 years of doing business in India. The tractor was launched in the presence of Satish Nadig...

Sonalika International Tractors Limited based in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur has recorded a 54% growth in domestic market with sales of 8029 tractors in November’18 as compared to 5230 tractors same period last year, the co...

Commemorating the completion of 10 successful years of partnership between the Volvo Group and Eicher Motors, Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles (VECV) has announced plans to set up a new greenfield truck manufacturin...

Openmatics, a subsidiary of ZF Friedrichshafen AG, is the official connectivity platform provider for VDL Bus & Coach, the Dutch vehicle manufacturer of buses and coaches. The open platform including API (Applicatio...

Jindal Stainless is eyeing the auto sector in a big way. The company plans to triple its supplies towards this segment in the next 5 years. According to the 2020 BSVI norms, stainless steel is the most preferred met...

The 8th edition of BusWorld India targeting the Indian bus and coach industry, concluded successfully on August 31, 2018 at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) in Bengaluru. The international B2B ex...

Decades of experience, the unrelenting search for top-level performance and practically-oriented testing over thousands of kilometres – in the Australian Outback and the world over. For 65 years, EarthCruiser Austra...

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd Farm Equipment Sector (FES) maintained its leadership position in the tractor industry with sales of over 3 lakh tractors in FY18 (April 2017 to March 2018). With this, the company achieved i...

The domestic tractor volumes continue to chart a growth story in the current fiscal, with the volumes expanding by 19.4% during April-February FY2018 (on a Y-o-Y basis). As per an ICRA note, while the growth in Agri...

Leading commercial vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland, part of the Hinduja group, has recorded a massive 79pc increase in sales of commercial vehicle in December 2017, as compared to the corresponding period in the ...

VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd. (A Volvo Group and Eicher Motors joint venture) sold 6087 units in December 2017 as compared to 4071 units in December 2016, recording a growth of 49.5%. This includes 5955 units of Eiche...

VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd. (A Volvo Group and Eicher Motors joint venture) has sold 4573 units in May 2017 as compared to 5771 units in May 2016 recording an overall decline of 20.8%. The May 2017 sales figure incl...

Leading commercial vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland recorded total sales of 7083 unitsin April 2017, down from 10,182 units sold in April 2016. While Light Commercial Vehicle sales grew by 11pc during this period ...

Leading tractor manufacturer in India, Sonalika ITL recorded an all-time high sales of 81531 units in fiscal 2016-17with growth of 19.6% over last year. This is the highest sale of tractors ever to be recorded in th...

Tractor volumes in domestic market have reported a positive growth trajectory during the fiscal 2016-17 (growth in volumes of 18.2% in 10months from April 2016 to January 2017 on a YoY basis) fuelled by favourable f...

VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd. (A Volvo Group and Eicher Motors joint venture) has sold 7327 units in March 2017 (FYTD 58604) as compared to 6753 units in March 2016 (LFYTD 52025) recording a growth of 8.5% (FYTD Growt...

MG Group, one of India’s largest bus building companies unveiled the company’s first special application coach (tarmac coach) – ‘Columbus’ at Busworld India 2016. The coach was unveiled at the hands of R. V. Deshpan...

The financial year gone by (April 2015-March 2016) has been an extremely positive one for the Indian CV industry. Laggards are still there, but the overall performance is looking good. Now with the predictions that ...

Tata Motors has signed a contract to supply 25 Tata Starbus Diesel Series Hybrid Electric Bus with Full Low floor configuration, with the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) – the single largest...

Volvo Buses India has taken a lead by introducing Volvo Hybrid City Bus in the country. Navi Mumbai becomes the first ever city in India to adopt hybrid buses. This was announced on the side-lines of the Make in Ind...

Eicher Trucks & Buses, part of VE Commercial Vehicles launched Eicher Live- an advanced Telematics solution for the commercial vehicle industry at the Auto Expo 2016. Eicher Live is trucking intelligence that drives...

Thousands of visitors thronged the Busworld 2015 in Kortrijk , Sweden, held between Oct 16 to 21, 2015, breaking all previous records in terms of visitors as well as exhibitors. The 23rd edition of the biannual prof...

One all along thought that Indian bus and truck drivers were uncouth, brash and drove recklessly. Well, there is one out there who will make this Indian trucking community proud. His name is Ravi Poleboina and he is...

Volvo Trucks has pipped all its European competitors to deliver its 10,000th truck in India on June 18. 2015. Volvo Trucks, the country’s largest truck manufacturer in premium European segment, has achieved this lan...

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. (DICV), a 100pc wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler AG, Stuttgart, Germany, has announced the inauguration of its new bus manufacturing facility in Oragadam. The company al...

Soon, more Volvo 9400 intercity coaches will join services of the Uttarakhand Transport Corporation (UTC) and help in enhancing connectivity in the region. Volvo Buses delivered five coaches to Great Value Fuels, a ...

Scania Commercial Vehicles India Pvt Ltd set a another industry record by receiving an order for 200 P 140 (8x4) tippers from India’s leading mining company, BGR Mining and Infra Private Limited, Hyderabad. The tipp...

Daimler Trucks will nearly sell 500,000 trucks in 2014 worldwide despite difficult market conditions, Daimler succeeded in increasing deliveries to 445,300 units in the first eleven months of 2014, an increase by th...

In the spring of 2013, coach operator "Avanti Reisen" of Freiburg, a major city in southwest Germany, set off in an S 515 HD on what is to date the world's longest journey by bus. The tour was brought to a successfu...

Sweden based truck and bus manufacturer Scania has set a record in a field test for lowest fuel consumption with lowest measure for any emission standard with 23.29 litres/100 km (almost 4.3 km to a litre of fuel). ...

Ashok Leyland, rolled out the country’s first On Board Diagnostic (OBD II) compliant vehicle powered

Escorts limited unveils ‘Jai Kisan' tractors in Gujarat

JCB unveils its India-specific EcoMax engine

Ashok Leyland and Nissan unveils Dost LCV

Apollo Acelere, millionth tyre to roll out