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Your Daily Automobile updates From Around The World [img]  [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [img]( [The Automobile News]( [MG Motors inaugurate Dakshta program]( The scope in automotive technologies is increasing and providing opportunities to bring prosperity in the area. With an enlarging competition between the automakers, this is experiencing the taste of unique and excellent technologies through which innovative paths for young and new talents are getting explored. These healthy collaborations and competitions would gift us a new world of automobiles. Cars with various technologies and robotics have already paced their sales and reputation in the market. Still, new trials and innovations are on the way. A well-known automaker “Morris Garages” also known as MG motors initiated a step that would be beneficial to the automotive markets as well as the enthusiasts willing to come into this line. MG Motor has collaborated with Automotive Skill Development Council (ASDC) and Autobot India to start a workshop training program called “Daksha”. The main motive of this program is to find and polish the skills of new workers for the enhancement of the automobile industry. The industry needs to have advanced and extremely skilled manpower to achieve the goals that every other innovative mind is thinking in the real world. This program is dedicated towards the specialization in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and electric vehicles, considering them as the real future of automobiles. Humans have already reached the extremes of the rigid and hardware innovations and it’s time for the software technologies to handover it. This partnership between MG motor and ASDC and Autobot India is dedicated to the MG’s vision of CASE (Connected, Autonomous, Shared and Electric) concept which is designed to concentrate moreover high end automobiles and cars with advanced features. This workshop would be opening new gates for the new workers and would be providing a new vision to the upcoming innovations in the automotive industry. The eight-module training programme will provide exclusive skill development courses to engineering students that are willing to step into the automobile industry. Due to COVID pandemic, this training will be provided online for some time and case study and best practices will be included later. Whatever kind of technology it be, the growth of the industry is taking the speed. For these advanced hybrid and electric vehicles technology students need to be nourished for an efficient future. The company said that ITI, diploma, as well as engineering students, will be trained to catch the level of competition being fought right now so that they can perform an efficient job and can carry innovations to an advanced level. Initiatives like this also increase employment for the youngsters. “The Dakshata programme is an initiative that will enable young students to develop relevant skills on futuristic technologies and become self-reliant, thereby empowering them for a brighter future and further strengthen the goal of fulfilling a broader vision of Skill India,” MG Motor India Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Yash Yadav said. “We thank MG Motor for collaborating with us for the Dakshata programme, which is part of our shared vision of building a sustainable skilling ecosystem in the automotive industry,” ASDC Chairman Nikunj Sanghi said. CEO of Autobot India Ashwini Tiwari also said in the support of the program that the dream of high-end technologies also needs an advanced skill set to carry the legacy advancing yourself technically and it could take automotive to a different level. The post [MG Motors inaugurate Dakshta program]( first appeared on [TheAutomobileNews.com](. [Read Full Story]( [Honda USA Moves All Manufacturing And Product Development Activities Under One Roof]( Honda announced plans to combine all of its automobile manufacturing and product development facilities in the U.S. into one new company, in similar fashion to the consolidation announced in February in Japan. The new entity will be called Honda Development & Manufacturing of America (HDMA) and will incorporate all the carmaker’s facilities related to frames, engines and transmissions, as well as related engineering and purchasing operations. In addition, the new company will also integrate the automobile product development operations of Honda R&D Americas (HRA). The Japanese carmaker said the unification of its manufacturing operations and merger with auto product development will be effective April 1, 2021. “Today, we are announcing a number of changes to our business operations that continue the journey we began last year, to become a more lean, nimble and unified company in North America,” said Shinji Aoyama, chief officer of North American Regional Operations of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., and president & CEO of American Honda. “Each change is vital to our ongoing effort to make Honda in America stronger and more responsive to the customer, better able to invest in advanced technology, and prepared to meet future market needs.” Another consequence of this move will be the integration of automobile product design and certain market research functions currently part of the HRA Los Angeles Center into the Regional Operations of American Honda Motor Company based in Torrance, California. According to Honda, the main goal with the consolidation of its U.S. auto creation activities is “achieving seamless development of new products with improved efficiency and quality, thus positioning its North American operations for the future”. As a result of these changes, all auto development, planning, purchasing, strategy and manufacturing will be brought into one company. This will strengthen what Honda calls a “one-floor” approach to the product development process, with the carmaker listing three major advantages of this philosophy. The first is the centralization of key business functions to become more efficient and eliminate redundancies. The second regards the execution of new product development with increased speed and accuracy, and the third is about improving manufacturing characteristics with a focus on quality, cost competitiveness and the ability to deliver vehicles that appeal to customers in a timely manner. [Read more…]( The post [Honda USA Moves All Manufacturing And Product Development Activities Under One Roof]( first appeared on [TheAutomobileNews.com](. [Read Full Story]( [Reinventing the Wheel: Daimler Intentionally Becoming a Smaller Company to Facilitate Tech]( Daimler Chairman Ola Källenius went against the grain on Thursday by admitting the company he’s been tasked with overseeing will become significantly smaller in five years. That’s normally not the kind of thing you want to telegraph to shareholders via the media but he’s convinced this is the best course of action for the business. “The next five years we will become a smaller company,” Källenius told Reuters. “We will have a fundamental change in the industrial footprint on the powertrain side.” The future of Daimler apparently involves a half-decade metamorphosis into a services-focused software company that just so happens to build vehicles. But the vehicles won’t be those internal-combustion jobs that you grew up around. Instead, they’ll be hyper-efficient electrics from Mercedes-Benz as it re-imagines luxury within the strict confines of environmental sustainability. As a byproduct, Daimler will need fewer employees to help manufacture automobiles. From Reuters: Jobs will disappear because it takes less time to build an electric car than a conventional gasoline or diesel version. That’s because an electric car’s battery and motor have only 200 components, compared with at least 1,400 parts found in a combustion engine and transmission, according to analysts at ING. The shift away from fossil fuel requires the automaker to double down on efficiency so it can free up resources to build electric and self-driving cars, Kallenius [sic] said. “We are hiring a lot of new software engineers, experts in battery chemistry, electrification,” he explained. Making Daimler smaller also fits with a new era where luxury no longer defines itself through opulence and excess but also through sustainability and efficiency. Traditional luxury is becoming passé now that Daimler knows splendor is incomparable with green movement. But its a concerning decision when we’ve yet to see any automaker other than Tesla showcase that EVs can reliably turn a profit. Even there, the American manufacturer gets a sizable financial boost from selling carbon credits to established firms with deep pockets and an inability to adhere with regulatory mandates. Assuming governments around the world stay the course and continue doubling down on emissions fines and incentivizing EV purchases, Daimler might be on the right path. However it’s just one company of sea of manufacturers who are all attempting to do the same thing at a time when electric development programs are extremely costly and the vehicles themselves are failing to reach parity with their gas-driven ancestors at the necessary pace. What happens five years from now when there’s more direct competition in the electrified segment and the market is still dragging its feet with low adoption rates? Källenius said this may not matter since Daimler will have an entirely different business model. Mercedes-Benz has been toying with the notion of selling fully equipped vehicles that have to have features unlocked via in-app subscription purchases (something we’re skeptical of benefiting consumers). But it thinks it can make money by implementing these changes and other digital services (customer data acquisition, new infotainment options, assisted driving packages, partnered advertising, etc.) offering recurring sources of revenue when it releases its new vehicle operating system in 2024. “Think about it like an iPhone,” Källenius explained, noting that even more services could be added via over-the-air software updates and vehicle connectivity. “You can add to it,” he said. “That’s the beauty of it.” [Read more…]( The post [Reinventing the Wheel: Daimler Intentionally Becoming a Smaller Company to Facilitate Tech]( first appeared on [TheAutomobileNews.com](. 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