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Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Topic: Mercedes-Benz

Telangana BJP V-P says Congress’s Deepa Dasmunshi ‘accepted Mercedes for favours’, gets legal notice

N.V.S.S. Prabhakar, who made claims in a TV debate, asked to pay Rs 10 crore to Dasmunshi within 7 days if he can't prove what he said. Allegations 'baseless', says notice.

Changes in India’s diesel vehicle tax could impact fuel mix portfolio, says Mercedes-Benz

The company's India unit MD Santosh Iyer said the govt's proposal for an additional 10% tax on diesel vehicles could speed up electrification since consumers may move to EVs or petrol.

Mercedes-Benz to Skoda—the driving experience is fundamentally changing. Over to software

Cars are getting ‘updated’ like a smartphone. With tech companies seeking a deeper integration with them, carmakers face an existential challenge.

Mercedes-Benz cars to have ‘supercomputers’, unveils Google partnership

Mercedes said the collaboration with Google would allow it to offer traffic information and automatic rerouting in its cars.

India’s appetite for luxury cars is entering the fast lane—Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW gearing up

All three German brands admit that 2022 would have been even better if not for a shortage of semiconductors that hit their highly-computerised models hard.

After double digit growth in ‘best year ever’, Mercedes Benz to launch 10 models in India in 2023

The top-end vehicles segment of the German carmaker saw the highest growth of 69% in 2022 when the company sold over 3,500 cars priced above Rs 1 crore.

There’s a little bit of India in cars around the world today. It’s in the codes that run them

Several car companies, including General Motors and Ford, who have both left the India market, do a huge amount of their software development work in India.

Your car has more software than you think. And the manufacturer has the codes

A fundamental shift is being witnessed in the industry where software rather than hardware will determine the future.

Mistry’s death shows the importance of airbags. But they are pointless without seat belts

Many would consider Cyrus Mistry’s Mercedes-Benz GLC 220d ‘safer’. But there were several bad hot-takes on social media about the car's ‘rear’ airbags not getting deployed.

Let the Ambassador RIP. India has got new ‘power cars’ and just as well

Despite its build, the Ambassador was no place to be in if there was an accident. It was a vintage vehicle that was way past its sell-by date even in 1991.

On Camera

Social media has made news more graphic. Torture by Russian military is latest example

Before social media, depiction of violence on news was the exception—graphic visuals were either not shown on TV or in newspapers or the images were blurred. This is no longer the case.

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

BRO connects new axis to Ladakh, to be shortest route

The all-weather Nimmu-Padam-Darcha Road will connect Manali to Leh through Darcha and Nimmu on Kargil-Leh Highway.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.