2016 – 17, Heavy Commercial Vehicles Sales – A round up.
Commercial Vehicle sales: Overall volume of Commercial vehicles sales stood at 7,14,232 Nos and grew by 4.2%. M&HCV truck and…
Tata motors turn around in heavy bus sales. YoY sales growth at 51%
Tata motors is one the the largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in world and is largest in India. Tata stands tall…
Tata – Marcopolo. Read how this JV transformed Tata’s bus range.
Ten years back, there wasn’t JNnurm funds for bus procurement, Urban Bus Specification wasn’t formed, there was nothing called AIS…
Govt. could earn upto Rs.14k Cr. from proposed old vehicles scrapage scheme.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently directed the Ministry of Heavy Industries to expeditiously frame a policy with regard to scrapping of vehicles and…
Volvo Mega Artic- World’s largest bus
Volvo launched the world’s largest bus chassis at the FetransRio exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The new biarticulated chassis,…
How does Retarder score more than service brakes?
A retarder is an additional supporting braking mechanism to service brakes or foundation brakes. Foundation brakes are the ones fitted in the…
How does Hydraulic retarder works?
As the name suggests, they work the principle of hydraulics. Primary principle being the Pascal’s law “Pressure applied to any…
How is low floor (LF) bus different from low entry(LE) bus?
India though one of the largest market for buses in the world, never had a large fleet of sophisticated city…
Electro Magnetic Retarder – Working and Principles
Electro Magnetic retarders (EMR) works on the principle of eddy currents. Basically they have a fixed stator and a pair…
Pusher axle Vs Tag axle – Bus
Pusher axle Vs Tag axle: There is always a debate between pusher axle and tag axle, to know which better…