Domestic car industry to report decline in July sales on high base effect

A month after an abnormal growth of 37 per cent (owing to a low base effect of June 2017), the domestic automobile industry is expected to report a decline in July on a high-base effect of corresponding month last year. Country's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki, has reported a drop of 0.6 per cent in July passenger vehicle sales. ALSO READ: Maruti Suzuki's profit climbs 27% in Q1, but skids on expectationsR S Kalsi, Senior Executive Director, marketing and sales, Maruti Suzuki, said July volumes must be seen together with June sales. Maruti Suzuki sold 134,036 units in June but owing to a low base, the growth was 44 per cent. ALSO READ: Maruti Suzuki dips 4% post Q1 resultsFord has reported a decline of 7 per cent in July domestic sales at 7,816 units.

A daughter of Detroit defies odds, takes car industry into the future

A daughter of Detroit defies odds, takes car industry into the futurePhoebe Wall Howard | Detroit Free PressDetroit Free PressDenise Gray arrived at Buca di Beppo Italian Restaurant in Livonia, along with nearly three dozen clients and employees, for her business dinner. "It's just being a female in a male-dominated industry," Gray said. Mandi Wright, Detroit Free Press"It was clear to all of us in the industry that the lithium-ion was probably going to be the battery of the future," Patil said. Depth of knowledge is very important."Mandi Wright, Detroit Free PressDeacon Willie Fred Hardy listens intently as Gray asks about family and parish members and recent sermons. "The fact that she's a woman and a woman of color, that's not how I primarily think of Denise.

The car industry needs to embrace open source

as declared in One of the ways that they are already doing this is in their use of open source components. This software is written and maintained by the open source community and made available for reuse by others so long as they follow their licenses. Open source components are essentially the building blocks of software, comprising between 60-80 percent of the code base in modern applications. When coding with open source, developers need to ensure that they are not using components with known vulnerabilities. If automakers are going to successfully utilize open source components, they are going to have to play by the rules.

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