Ashok Leyland, the flagship of the Hinduja Group, has formed of a strategic alliance with SUN Mobility, promoted by Chetan Maini, founder of Reva, and Uday Khemka, Vice Chairman of SUN Group.

This would be a key driver for Ashok Leyland to achieve its target of clocking 10-15 per cent of its total volumes from electric mobility solutions by 2020, said Vinod K Dasari, managing director, Ashok Leyland.

Ashok Leyland has reported a six per cent growth in Medium and Heavy Commercial Vehicle (M&HCV) sales in June.The company sold 9,202 units of M&HCV in June 2017 against 8,685 units in the year-ago period. The company's Light Commercial Vehicles (LCV) sale grew 29 per cent to 3,128 units from 2,423 units in the corresponding month in 2016.

Total sales of the company rose by 11 per cent in June to 12,330 units from 11,108 units in the same month a year ago.

Commercial vehicle major Ashok Leyland chairman Dheeraj G Hinduja said the company will continue to provide thrust to the core business of commercial vehicles and build a portfolio of profitable segments.

Hinduja said the company performance was "remarkable" last year and this was achieved in a year when the overall industry sales volume was static, and demonetisation and implementation of BS-IV emission norms had dampening effects on sales volume growth.

Ashok Leyland moved higher by 2% to Rs 95.55, recovering 2.6% from early morning lows of Rs 93.10, after a huge block deal executed on the counter on BSE.

At 09:21 am; around 10.98 million equity shares representing 0.46% of total equity of Ashok Leyland have changed hand on the BSE in a single block deal, the exchange data shows.

Commercial vehicle major Ashok Leyland (ALL) said that it has got three-pronged approach for increasing electric buses market in India, which includes European technology and battery swapping technology.

ALL's Managing Director Vinod K Dasari said the company is bullish on the electric vehicle segment. He noted that the government is keen to buy around 20,000-25,000 electric vehicles. Besides Tata Motors, competition would be from Chinese players like BYD and European companies.

The country’s second largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, Ashok Leyland on Thursday beat estimates by reporting a net profit of Rs476 crore during the January-March quarter against a net loss of Rs140 crore during the same period last year on the back of healthy demand for its products in the medium and heavy vehicles segment.

Due to higher demand for trucks and buses, net sales during the period increased 10.79% y-o-y to Rs6,617.89 crore.

Ashok Leyland has unsold stock of more than 10,664 units of commercials vehicles compliant to BSIII emission norms, however the loss will not be as big as expected as the brand plans to upgrade the engines for aftermarket sales, the company MD told PTI. The engines of the vehicles will be fitted with with a new intelligent exhaust gas recirculation (iEGR) technology, so as to bring them up to Bharat Stage IV emission standards. The cost of fitting this new tech on the engines will be Rs 20,000.

Ashok Leyland – the country’s second-largest commercial vehicle manufacturer – has ended FY17 with a market share of 37.44% in the M&HCV segment, the highest since 2001 when the company had reported a market share of 38%.During FY17, sales of heavy and medium vehicles increased 3% to 113,296 units despite the adverse impact of demonetisaton which pulled truck sales down for almost two months.

The Supreme Court's decision to disallow the sale and registration of BS-III vehicles from April 1 will not only impact auto makers but also other stakeholders, according to Vinod K Dasari, managing director of Ashok Leyland and president of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM).

Dasari also said that companies will find ways and means to address the challenge, including looking at export markets and converting the vehicles to BS-IV. The latter could see the cost of the vehicles increase by 8-10 per cent.

NEW DELHI: Hinduja group flagship Ashok Leyland is looking to strengthen presence in the country's logistics sector that is estimated to touch USD 370 billion by 2020.

The company is enhancing its range of fully built vehicles in order to tap the sector which is expected to grow at a CAGR of 16 per cent.

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