NOVEMBER 20184The Indian auto industry is one of the largest worldwide with more than four million cars and commercial vehicles produced in India, one of Asia's largest markets. The industry at pre-sent is seen undergoing a massive shift ushering technologies behind electric and autonomous vehicles and onboard tech designed to improve or enhance the driving experience. Many industry experts are of the belief that the traditional ecosystem of this industry has been challenged with technological developments and evolving business models. Electrification of vehicles, advancements of sensor, electrical architecture, OTA, artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, mobility busi-ness models, machine learning and self-driving cars, are disrupting the conventional ecosystem of the automotive industry.In a nutshell, increasingly, the auto industry is expanding its pres-ence in rural India and entrepreneurs are jumping into this space with their innovative ideas and driving the change. Most of start-ups are seen changing the ways how automobile are built, bought, driven and sold. With innovative approaches, these startups are incorporating new strate-gies to push the market forward. Auto tech start-ups are playing a key role in bringing open innovation faster and cheaper into the market. With the inception of such new age start-ups, the line between technology and automotive industries continues to blur, and more and more of them are creating services and products that could transform the industry.Our current edition features a list of "10 Most Promising Auto-tech Startups". The list includes innovative startups that are making it big in auto space. We also recommend you to read our cover story on Tunwal E-Bike, an Indian electric two-wheeler manufacturing company estab-lished in 2014 with a mission to change each and every gasoline bike existing on roads by battery operated e-bike and scooters.Do let us know your thoughts.Nandini MukherjeeManaging EditorThe Wind of Change for Auto-tech start-ups is here!EDITOR'S NOTE Vol 4 · Issue 5 - 2 · November 02, 2018 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Nandini Mukherjee Editorial Team Amit Raja Naik Lakshmi G Pooja Devi Hridkamal Roy Deepshikha Singh Sales & Marketing Garima Anand Tapas Ranjan Mallick Editorial Queries editor@startupcity.com To subscribe Visit www.startupcity.com/subscribe Cover price is Rs. 150 per issue.Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of Siliconmedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Alok ChaturvediCopyright © 2018 SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.sales@startupcity.comGroup Art Director Ashok KumarCirculation Manager Magendran PerumalVisualisers S.Sivasankar Vishnu T RSr. Manager Sales & Marketing Amrit Singhsiliconindia
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