23 Facts About Ashok Leyland

1. Ashok Leyland Limited the flagship company of The Hinduja Group, is engaged in manufacturing and marketing of commercial vehicles.

2. Ashok Leyland is leading a Dengue Fever Awareness campaign as part of its social responsibility to benefit the communities around its Hosur plant.

3. Ashok Leyland supplies chassis in both built-up and knocked down versions to LAL which, in turn, assembles the chassis and builds bodies for the local market.

4. Ashok Leyland is the flagship of the Hinduja Group, and rightfully so.

5. Ashok Leyland has carved a niche for itself in the Indian truck industry.

6. On the other hand, Ashok Leyland worked on adding some incremental GVW to the same 5 axle truck by replacing the single wheeler pusher lift axle with twin tyre pusher lift axle.

7. Ashok Leyland is trying to take away a portion of this LCV market through its Partner truck but has been unable to do so.

8. Over the past decade, Ashok Leyland Trucks have emerged very aggressively and are reducing the sales volume gap with Tata Trucks.

9. In 1980, British Ashok Leyland was still producing four cars in the large family car sector—the Princess 2, Austin Maxi, Morris Marina and Triumph Dolomite.

10. Ashok Leyland is leader in producing trucks and buses, recently reported its Q1 net profit to Rs.

11. With the launch of Dost Ashok Leyland has now entered the Light Commercial Vehicle segment in India[13][14][15][16][17].

12. Ashok Leyland reported numbers that were below-estimate as adverse mix and higher discounts hurt margins.

13. Ashok Leyland started its corporate journey as Ashok Motors, collaborating with the Austin Motor Company and assembling Austin cars.

14. On 11 June 2012, Ashok Leyland supplied 100 Falcon buses to Ghana for $7.6 million.

15. Ashok Leyland announced iBUS in the beginning of 2008, as part of the future for the country's increasingly traffic-clogged major cities.

16. Ashok Leyland has developed hythane engines in association with the Australian company Eden Energy.

17. Ashok Leyland has launched a mobile emission clinic that operates on highways and at entry points to New Delhi.

18. Ashok Leyland is the largest supplier of logistics vehicles to the Indian Army.

19. In May 2015, Ashok Leyland stopped production due to low demand.

20. Ashok Leyland announced the sale of vehicles on the new U-Truck platform in November 2010 with the rolling out of the first set of 10 models of tippers and tractor trailers in the 16 to 49-tonne segment.

21. On 18 July 2017 Ashok Leyland announced the formation of an alliance with SUN Mobility, The global partnership aims to develop electric vehicles.

22. As part of the agreement Ashok Leyland has partnered with IIT Madras to carry out research and development activities for strengthening battery engineering and related sub-parts, especially for electric vehicles.

23. Ashok Leyland is an Indian automobile company headquartered in Chennai, India.