INTRODUCTION
• Automobiles provide vehicle for quick transport of good services
and passengers.
• Trucks, buses, cars, motor cycles, scooters, multi utility vehicles,
etc are manufactured in India.
• The industry has experienced a quantum jump in less than 15
years.
• The Automotive industry in India is one of the largest in the
world and one of the fastest growing globally
HISTORY
• The first car was built by Joesph Cugnot in 1769. It was powered by a steam
engine and was very slow.
• Jean Joseph Lenoir was the first to build the one cylinder engine , internal-
combustion engine.
• In 1886 Gottlieb Daimler designed the first four wheeled Automobile. He also
created the first vslanted engine
MARKET SHARE OF PASSENGER AUTOMOBILES
Models 2013
Alto 23,823
Swift 16,788
Dzire 15,427
Wagon R 12,154
Grand i10 9,077
Bolero 8,465
Omni 5,590
Eon 5,428
Ertiga 4,924
Innova 4,918
CURRENT SCENARIO
• India manufactures over 11 million 2 and 4-wheeled automobile
and exports about 1.5 million every year.
• It is the world's second largest manufacturer of motorcycles.
• India's passenger car and commercial vehicle manufacturing
industry is the seventh largest in the world.
SPECIAL FEATURES
• In 2006 India was rated as the eleventh largest automobile market in the world. The segment
was booming and the Government drew up the plans for the Automotive Mission Plan
2016(AMP 2016).
• The ten year plan envisaged a growth from the number eleven spot to the number four spot
globally, GDP contribution from the auto sector was set to grow from 5 per cent to 10 per cent,
and the overall contribution to the manufacturing sector would grow from 17 per cent to 35 per
cent.
• One of the key elements related to growth in the Indian auto industry is the value chain. India
is one of the most price competitive markets globally and sourcing as well as producing
components up the value chain can have a dizzying effect on success and therefore growth.
PROBLEMS FACED FROM THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY
During the manufacturing of automobiless, the automobile industry causes
various types of pollution such as:-
• Pollution from heavy metals and thermosetting plastics used for making the
vehicles.
• Pollution from synthetic rubber used in making various parts of the
automobiles.
• Paints used for coloring the automobiles
POLLUTION CAUSED BY AUTOMOBILES
• The internal combustion engines of automobiles run on petroleum
oil. Burning of petroleum fuels emit pollutants to atmosphere such
as carbon-di-oxide, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen and
sulphur as well as various aerosols.
MAJOR PLAYERS OF AUTOMOBILES IN INDIA
• Tata Motors
• Maruti Suzuki
• Ashok Leyland
• Hindustan Motors
• Mahindra
• Hero
MAJOR INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS OF AUTOMOBILES
• Aston Martin
• BMW
• Porsche
• Mercedes
• Harley Davidson
• Rolls Royce