Ratan Tata invests $15 million in a research facility, aimed to power car by simple water.

Recently, in a press conference convened by the Chemical Research Society of India, revealed the dream of Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata.

Ratan Tata's dream is to see cars fueled by only water, simply water which may be toilet water, sea water or drinking water. In order to make it happen soon, he has invested USD 15 million in a start-up firm supporting research in the field, carried out by an eminent scientist from Massechusetts Institute of Technology in the US.

The scientist, friend of Prof C N R Rao who is chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister said that he(scientist) has found a way to split water directly into hydrogen and oxygen.

- PTI Inputs

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After dip in sales, Tata Nano to come with four-year manufacturer's warranty.

After noticing a decrease in demand for the world cheapest car, nano, Tata Motors said it would offer a four-year manufacturer's warranty on Nano cars and it would be extended to all existing customers of the vehicle.

Tata reported that sales of the Nano, plunged by 85% in the November compared with a year earlier, despite other models surging ahead in Indian auto market.

Media reports of a handful of spontaneous fires, difficulty getting financing to purchase the cars and rising prices have spoil-sported the sales of the Nano.

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World cheapest car, people's car Tata Nano sales are drastically down.

World cheapest car produced by Indian Car maker Tata's Nano popularly know as 'one lakh car', sales plunged by 85% in November compared with a year earlier, TATA has said.

They say that difficulty in acquiring loan is the reason behind the plunge.

But car analysts says that above might not be the reason for plunge. They think its the series of fire catching incidents in the Nano, as well as price rises are the cause of concern for the affected sales.

It had sold just 509 Nanos during November 2010.

Tata offered free safety upgrades for the model, which went on sale last year.

This came after much media frenzy behind the fire catching incidents which were reported by six owners.

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Tata to hire 1500 engineers for its UK Jaguar plant

TATA's Jaguar Land Rover, come with good news as the company has started recruiting for new posts.

It has already announced 1500 new UK posts. But three times that number may be needed if the company's strategy goes to plan, The Telegraph reports.

During recession, JLR was set to close one of its three UK manufacturing plants. That has now been shelved.

The company says, it has received 13,000 applications for 1,500 new jobs.

The latest, smallest and most fuel-efficient Range Rover will be built at the Halewood plant on Merseyside.

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Tata Motors plans to setup 1000 kiosk for Tata Nano

In order for the easy distribution of Tata Nano across India, Tata Motors plans to setup more than a 1,000 kiosks across India to sell the car, especially in areas where it has no dealerships.

If this strategy works it will double its sales and despatches to 20,000 Nanos a month from 9,000 at present.

"Customers will be able to take a closer look at and test drive the Tata Nano across all Tata Motors dealerships and special Nano access points. Tata Motors has also tied up with 25 banks to offer customers with loans for purchasing Tata Nano at attractive rates of interest,� said a Tata Motors spokesperson.

Tata Motors hopes to sell 2,50,000 Nanos a year for next fiscal.

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Tata nano initial sketch was designed by Ratan Tata itself in a lifeless meeting.

Soon to be coming book,"Small Wonder: The Making of Nano" reveal that Tata Nano the cheapest car @ 2,200 was roughly designed by none other that Ratan Tata, head of the Tata Group of companies at boring executives meeting.

Ratan Tata's initial doodle was to rebuild a car around a "scooter so that those using it could travel safer", says Noronha and colleagues in the book.

Christabelle Noronha, who co-authored the book with Philip Chacko and Sujata Agarwal, says: "The Nano has been and remains essentially a product of Ratan Tata's imagination and his desire to recast the car as a means of affordable personal obility for middle class India". "We had a strong feeling that the Nano story needed to be chronicled - that the story would be something that ordinary readers would be keen to know and understand," Noronha told IANS.

The writers met more than 100 people from Tata Motors, including "engineers, dealers as well as Nano owners, before getting down to writing the book".

"It took us a year to write the book. We began in April 2009," Noronha said. The writer said "one of the greatest plus points of Nano was to marry quality with affordability".

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