Automotive Research Association of India has designed a light weight bus body that is fully compliant with the body building code that ARAI claims delivers fuel savings of 8% compared with current commercial buses.

Electricity transmission system operator, TenneT BV and Daimler AG, through its Mercedes-Benz Energy GmbH subsidiary, via a joint development partnership have announced they have researched and tested the feasibility of using used electric vehicle batteries as ‘second life’ storage devices of electricity in the national grid.

Continental AG has officially inaugurated its materials research laboratory, called 'Taraxagum Lab Anklam'.