Quick notes: EV opportunity, Divine powers...

• Waiting for policy clarity: Electric cars about to be profitable, says Mahindra. Biggest opportunity for decades - “We’re not looking for subsidies, we were just saying, ‘Tell us that’s the track you’re going to follow.’ If you’re going to do that, there’s money to be made, there’s going to be a return.”



• Danger signs: Businessmen are putting their money into speculative schemes instead of factories. Due to pressure from Chinese imports, micro, small, and medium enterprises are not able to generate satisfactory returns.



• Maybe a bit late?  Govt to create Rs 500-cr fund for R&D in 5G 



• Bengaluru to get public bike sharing: Bicycle riding facilities to be created with 6,000 bicycles.



• Ideal for India: 48-volt mild-hybrid feature a larger starter motor that can recover braking energy to recharge the battery and send some additional power to the driveline. Cost-effective solution to boost efficiency by cutting fuel consumption at idle.



• The Boy With Divine Powers :




• “Eat as little as possible”: The new food pyramid in Belgium sticks meat next to candy and pizza



• Europe’s two largest train makers: Siemens and Alstom to merge to counter China's CRRC, which is bigger than the train businesses of Siemens, Alstom and Bombardier combined. Competition from China has already been a factor in other big European mergers.