Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has emphasized on the need for a quick rollout of Flex-Fuel Vehicles (FFVs) capable of running on 100% ethanol and gasoline into the Indian auto market within a year’s time, vis-a-vis successful available technologies in Brazil and USA.

Meeting a delegation of CEOs from Society of India Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) composed of private, commercial, and two-wheeler automobile manufacturers, Nitin Gadkari congratulated the OEMs performing well on the front of vehicle engineering and has appealed all private vehicle manufacturers to compulsorily provide a minimum of 6 airbags across all variants and segments of the vehicle, in the interest of passenger safety.

The delegation presented an update of the auto industry’s status and requested for deferment of emission-based regulations such as BS-6 Phase 2, CAFE Phase 2 among others such as OBD regulations for two-wheelers.