Germany's Volkswagen and India's Tata Motors signed a memorandum of understanding to develop components, and possibly new vehicles. Volkswagen's Skoda Auto AS will join the project on behalf of the German automobile group. Volkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller said the partnership would help it "achieve sustainable and profitable growth in very different...
Tata Motors Launches Fuel Cell Powered Bus
Headquartered in Mumbai, India's largest automobile maker, Tata Motors, showcased its most recent vehicle: the hydrogen powered "Starbus", a zero-emission mass transport solution, for inter-city commutes. This bus, developed in partnership with India's Space Research Organization, works by combining hydrogen and oxygen in a fuel cell. The fuel cell produces...
Amazon Web Services Launches First Data Center in India
Amazon’s cloud computing business officially inaugurated its first data center infrastructure in India with the launch of two data centers in Mumbai, which becomes the 6th AWS Region in Asia Pacific bringing the global footprint of AWS Regions to 13. Local server infrastructure enables a quicker transfer of data between clients and Amazon’s...
Amazon Web Services Plans to Open a New Infrastructure Hub in India
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it plans to open a new “infrastructure region” in the world’s second most populous country sometime in 2016. “Tens of thousands of customers in India are using AWS from one of AWS’s eleven global infrastructure regions outside of India,” said Andy Jassy, senior vice...
America's Jeep Returns to India with $280 Million Investment
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced that it will invest approximately $280 million in its manufacturing joint venture, Fiat India Automobiles, with Tata Motors. The manufacturing facility in Ranjangaon, located around 31 miles (50 km) from Pune in the western state of Maharashtra, will support the production of a new Jeep vehicle. Production is...
Why Did Tata Motors succeed in integrating Jaguar Land Rover?
Very soon after Tata Motors bought the UK companies Land Rover and Jaguar from Ford Motor Company, the world was hit by the financial crisis of 2008. Most automotive experts thought that Tata could have acquired these assets for much less. Others felt that a low cost maker of sub-compacts...