India’s First Multi‑Energy Car Platform: JSW MG Motor Brings One Platform for All Electric Cars

JSW MG Motor India has just unveiled MG ADAPT — a modular, multi‑NEV platform capable of supporting EVs, hybrids, plug‑in hybrids, and range‑extender EVs. The company confirmed that one EV and one PHEV will debut by FY2026‑27, backed by a ₹1,400 crore investment in its Halol plant.

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• Advance Drive Architecture Platform Technology: India’s first multi‑NEV platform.
• Powertrain Flexibility: Supports EV, HEV, PHEV, and REEV on a single intelligent architecture.
• 10‑in‑1 Electric Drive Unit: India’s first, integrating propulsion, charging, and control functions.
• Electromagnetic Hybrid Transmission: Claimed world‑first, four times faster than hydraulic systems.
• Energy Management System: Switches seamlessly between Pure EV, Series Hybrid, Parallel Hybrid, and Engine Direct Drive.

Upcoming Vehicles

• MG Starlight 560: SUV expected to debut later in 2026.
• Next‑Gen ZS EV: Based on global MG S5, tuned for India.
• MG IM5/IM6: Coupe‑SUVs to be sold via MG Select dealerships.
• Hector Hawk: Likely to feature EV, hybrid, and PHEV variants.

Strategic Context

Platform	Powertrain Options	Key Innovation	First Models Expected
MG ADAPT	EV, HEV, PHEV, REEV	10‑in‑1 drive unit, electromagnetic hybrid transmission	Starlight 560, ZS EV
Toyota TNGA‑C Hybrid	HEV, PHEV	Proven hybrid efficiency	Hyryder, Corolla Cross
Tata Gen‑2 EV Architecture	EV only	High‑density battery packs	Curvv EV, Sierra EV
Maruti Suzuki Hybrid	Mild hybrid, strong hybrid	Cost‑efficient hybridization	Grand Vitara, Ertiga

Leadership Statement

“The future of mobility lies in giving customers the freedom to choose the energy solution that best suits their lifestyle, without compromising on performance, efficiency or driving experience. MG ADAPT marks a defining milestone in our New Energy Vehicle journey.” — Anurag Mehrotra, MD, JSW MG Motor India

Risks & Challenges

• Charging Infrastructure: Public charging remains limited; REEV and PHEV options bridge the gap.
• Pricing: Advanced tech may raise costs versus ICE competitors.
• Competition: Tata leads EV adoption; Toyota/Maruti dominate hybrids. MG must differentiate with versatility.

📌 Takeaway

MG ADAPT is a future‑ready, modular platform designed to accelerate India’s transition to electrified mobility. By offering multiple propulsion technologies on one architecture, JSW MG Motor India is positioning itself as a pioneer in the NEV space, aiming to capture diverse consumer cohorts and contribute to India’s 30% NEV adoption target by 2030.

LTM Partners with Glean to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption

• LTM and Glean will help enterprises build the trusted context foundation AI needs to deliver accurate, governed, and outcome-driven results across the business

LTM, the Business Creativity partner to the world's largest enterprises, today announced a strategic partnership with Glean, the enterprise AI platform that connects and understands enterprise knowledge across the applications, systems, and workflows employees use every day to help organizations unlock greater value from their AI investments. Through the partnership, LTM will combine its deep domain and technology expertise and its BlueVerseTM agentic AI ecosystem with Glean’s enterprise context and intelligence layer to help organizations drive productivity, accelerate decision-making, and scale AI adoption across the enterprise.

The partnership will focus on enabling large enterprises to address one of the biggest barriers to AI success: fragmented knowledge spread across multiple business applications, data sources, and workflows. By leveraging Glean’s AI platform and its enterprise knowledge graph, AI-powered search, assistants, agents, and integrations across multiple enterprise data sources, organizations can provide employees with secure, permission-aware access to the trusted enterprise context they need to find information, take action, and make better decisions across their digital ecosystem.

As enterprises advance from AI experimentation to large-scale adoption, LTM and Glean will help customers operationalize AI across key business functions, including IT support, enterprise knowledge management, and enterprise application operations. The collaboration will particularly benefit organizations operating in complex, highly regulated environments such as banking, financial services, insurance, manufacturing, and large global enterprises with diverse technology landscapes. Through this collaboration, Glean’s enterprise knowledge and context layer will work alongside LTM’s BlueVerse agentic AI ecosystem, giving customers a governed path from enterprise search and assistants to autonomous, outcome-driven agents.

“AI will deliver its greatest impact when it can access the full context of an enterprise and seamlessly connect people, knowledge, and workflows,” said Venu Lambu, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, LTM. “Our partnership with Glean strengthens LTM’s AI-led transformation portfolio and complements our BlueVerse AI ecosystem by helping organizations unlock intelligence across their enterprise systems while maintaining governance, security, and compliance.”

Glean enables organizations to unify knowledge spread across collaboration platforms, business applications, IT systems, ERP environments, customer platforms, and cloud ecosystems. The platform complements existing AI investments, including Microsoft Copilot and other AI ecosystems, by serving as an open and interoperable context and intelligence layer that connects information across both Microsoft and non-Microsoft environments while preserving the permissions, governance, and security controls enterprises require.

“Large enterprises want AI that can do more than answer questions — they need AI that understands their business, respects their governance requirements, and helps employees take action across the systems they use every day,” said Amar Maletira, President and COO, Glean. “By pairing Glean’s trusted enterprise context layer with LTM’s industry expertise, global delivery capabilities, and BlueVerse™ agentic AI ecosystem, we can help customers move from fragmented knowledge and disconnected tools to measurable outcomes across the business.”

The joint offering is designed to help customers realize measurable business outcomes such as faster incident resolution, improved employee productivity, reduced support costs, accelerated onboarding, enhanced enterprise search, and more efficient application support operations.

About LTM

LTM- a Larsen & Toubro Group Company — is an AI-centric global technology services company and the Business Creativity partner to the world’s largest enterprises. We bring human insights and intelligent systems together to help clients create greater value at the intersection of technology and domain expertise. Our capabilities span integrated operations, transformation, and business AI — enabling new ways of working, new productivity paradigms, and new roads to value. Together with over 87,000 employees across 40 countries and our global network of partners, LTM owns outcomes for our clients, helping them not just outperform the market, but Outcreate it. Read more at LTM.com.

Honda Cars India Secures ARAI, ICAT Certification for Its Wind Tunnel Facility to Support WLTP Compliance for India Models

Honda Cars India Ltd. (HCIL), a leading manufacturer of premium cars in India, announced that it has received Confirmation Certificate from two of the country’s premier automotive testing and certification agencies, the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) and the International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT) for its advanced state-of-the-art Wind Tunnel Facility at its R&D facility in Tochigi, Japan to conduct testing activities supporting Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP) certification requirements for its India-specific Honda models.

The ARAI certificate was handed over by Dr Reji Mathai, Director, ARAI to Mr Udit Kumar, SVP and Director, HCIL. The ICAT certificate was handed over by Mr Saurabh Dalela, Director, ICAT to Mr Udit Kumar, SVP and Director, HCIL. Senior officials from ARAI and ICAT were present in the certificate handover ceremonies respectively. 

Dr Reji Mathai, Director, ARAI handing over the ARAI certificate to HCIL

Mr Saurabh Dalela, Director, ICAT handing over Confirmation certificate to HCIL

This certification recognises HCIL to use the Wind Tunnel facility in combination with Chassis Dynamometer facilities for ‘Vehicle Road Load Determination’ under the established AIS:175 regulatory standard that mandates the adoption of the WLTP from April 1, 2027. The certification marks an important milestone in Honda’s efforts to leverage its global research and development infrastructure to support homologation and regulatory compliance requirements in India.

WLTP is a globally recognised vehicle testing procedure developed to provide more equal representative measurements of fuel consumption, energy consumption and exhaust emissions. The system was developed under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and is already used in markets such as Europe, Japan and South Korea. This certification comes at a significant time as India advances towards implementing WLTP based testing procedures, which require robust and accurate aerodynamic evaluation to support vehicle efficiency and emission assessments and will support Honda’s efforts to ensure seamless compliance for future models.

Speaking on the announcement, Mr. Takashi Nakajima, President & CEO, Honda Cars India Ltd. said, “We are pleased to receive this certification from ARAI and ICAT for Honda’s Wind Tunnel Test Facility to be used for testing activities supporting the upcoming WLTP certification requirements. While it is an important milestone, it is also a reflection of Honda’s long-standing commitment to engineering excellence and proactive compliance with evolving regulations.”

India's Ist Private Orbital Rocket, Skyroot's Vikram-1, Eyes Historic Lift Off of Its First Test Flight Tomorrow

Skyroot Aerospace's maiden test flight of Vikram-1 will attempt to launch from the first launch pad at SDSC-SHAR on 18 July at 11:30 AM. This will be the first time an orbital-class rocket, fully designed and developed by a private player, will attempt to fly from Indian soil. Concerned authorities have issued the necessary airspace and maritime notices, formally designating the restricted zones along Vikram-1's ascent and impact corridor for launch day.

This mission is called Mission Aagaman, marking the arrival of India's private sector in the global launch business.

We have done everything that could be done to test Vikram-1 on ground. On 18 July, we are eager to see how Vikram-1 performs in real flight environment for the first time. This is our first test flight, and we will be getting valuable data from it. This will be foundational to Skyroot's aspirations of establishing launch cadence. We are excited to see this through.
— Pawan Kumar Chandana, Co-founder & CEO, Skyroot Aerospace.

Vikram-1, will carry technology demonstration payloads from Grahaa Space, Cosmoserve, DCubed and Skyroot's own SCOPE, along with Cosmos Diamonds' artwork "Cosmic Bloom" and a micro-art piece.

"The small satellite launch market is deeply constrained on the supply side. At the same time, the demand for services enabled by satellites in space will only continue to grow, and that is where Skyroot's opportunity lies. The clearance of Vikram-1 for flight following rigorous testing is a defining milestone in India's space journey. This first test flight marks the beginning of Skyroot's aspiration to open space for all,” added Pawan.

Mission Aagaman, meaning “the arrival”, marks Skyroot’s second mission following the successful suborbital flight of Vikram-S, the first private rocket to reach space from Indian soil, on 18 November 2022.

What we are aiming to do on 18 July is bigger than a single launch. It represents the hopes and hard work of around 1,000 people, the contributions of over 400 suppliers, and nearly 3,000 days of resolve to build a global offering from India. This test flight will show us how every technology we have developed over the years performs in real-world conditions. With the in-flight data gathered from this mission, we will return to the shop floor to learn, improve, and build further. This test flight is the first step towards creating a reliable, on-demand launch company for the world from India. — Naga Bharath Daka, Co-founder & COO, Skyroot Aerospace

All stages of Skyroot's Vikram-1 have been successfully integrated and stacked on the launch pad. Following which, the final integrated checks of the vehicle on the launch pad from Skyroot’s launch control centre have been completed along with the interface checks with all the telemetry ground stations and tracking radars.

Vikram-1 is a seven-storey-tall, multi-stage orbital launch vehicle built with an all-carbon composite structure and powered by in-house developed propulsion systems, including 3D-printed engines and high-thrust solid-fuel rocket boosters. Designed to carry small satellites weighing up to 350 kg to Low Earth Orbit (LEO), its first test flight is targeting a 450 km orbit at 60° inclination.

Mahindra Chakan Crosses 3 Million Vehicles, Flags Off BE 6 as Future‑Ready Manufacturing Hub

• Accelerated Growth: Latest one million vehicles produced in just 27 months.
• Flexibility at Scale: The 657-acre integrated manufacturing hub produces 19 models and over 450 variants.
• Sustainability at the Core: A water positive, certified Zero Waste to Landfill and operating on more than 50% renewable energy.

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. today announced that its State-of-the Art Chakan manufacturing facility has crossed the landmark cumulative production milestone of three million vehicles. The milestone vehicle was the BE 6, Mahindra’s most advanced flagship electric SUV, reflecting the facility’s evolution into a future-ready manufacturing hub supporting both internal-combustion and electric mobility.

Since rolling out its first vehicle in December 2009, Chakan has evolved into one of Mahindra’s most strategically important manufacturing facility. Achieving its latest one million in just 27 months, nearly four times faster than the first million.

R Velusamy, President – Automotive Business, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., said, “The rollout of our three-millionth vehicle, the BE 6, from Chakan marks a proud milestone in Mahindra’s manufacturing journey. The acceleration from 107 months for our first million vehicles to just 27 months for the latest million reflects the growing trust of our customers and the unwavering commitment of our people, partners, and suppliers. Chakan combines Industry 4.0, artificial intelligence, IoT, 5G connectivity, advanced robotics, digital traceability, and flexible multi-model manufacturing, underpinned by Lean and TPM practices. Together, these capabilities enable us to deliver world-class quality, agility, and scale while advancing responsible manufacturing. As we continue to build world-class products in India for India and the world, Chakan will remain at the heart of our manufacturing excellence.”

Flexibility at Scale: One Integrated Manufacturing Hub

Spread across 657 acres, Chakan manufactures 19 models and over 450 variants across ICE passenger vehicles, electric vehicles and commercial vehicles.

Intelligent Manufacturing: A Future-Ready Ecosystem

The Chakan facility combines advanced manufacturing technology with Lean and Total Productive Maintenance methodologies to drive quality, flexibility and operational excellence.

• Smart manufacturing: Industry 4.0, AI, IoT, 5G connectivity and digital traceability across operations.
• Automation at scale: Approximately 1,500 robots, over 98% automation in body-shop, along with robotic painting and sealer application.
• Quality built-in: 3D component scanning, real-time weld-integrity monitoring and interlocked “No Fault Forward” quality gateways.
• Flexible operations: Seven multi-model assembly lines and synchronised autonomous mobile robots for material movement.
• AI-enabled safety: Real-time monitoring of personal protective equipment compliance and shop-floor safety.

Sustainability at the Core: Responsible Manufacturing at Scale

• More than 50% of the plant’s energy requirement is met through renewable energy, while electric-vehicle manufacturing at the facility operates on 100% renewable energy.
• The facility is water positive, returning the equivalent of 131% of the water it utilises back to nature, supported by annual rainwater recharge of approximately 9.91 lakh kilolitres.
• Chakan is also certified as Zero Waste to Landfill and is nearing the achievement of its EP100 commitment to double energy productivity.

Built in India, for the World: Supporting Mahindra’s Global Growth

Almost all vehicle models manufactured at Chakan support Mahindra’s international operations, with exports to global markets including South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.