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LAUNCHES • REVIEWS • MOTORSPORT What’s the REV? Industry snippets and quick news about launches, reviews, motorsport Top Gear award for Mahindra executive The founder and CEO of Mahindra Reva Electric Car Company, Chetan Maini, has been named Man of the Year at the sixth annual awards ceremony of the Indian edition of Top Gear magazine. The trophy, appropriately named the Stig Trophy, was presented to Maini in recognition of his ongoing efforts in promoting clean personal mobility solutions in India. The awards ceremony was held in Mumbai recently. Maini founded the Reva Electric Car Company in 1994 and its first car was launched in India in 2001. Subsequently it went on sale in the United Kingdom in 2004 where it was renamed the G-Wiz. A majority stake (55.2%) in the company was bought by the Mumbai-based multinational Mahindra Group in March 2011 and renamed Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles, with headquarters in Bangalore. Mahindra Reva exemplifies the Mahindra Group’s vision of the Future of Mobility- an automotive ecosystem that offers Clean, SKF South Africa - Celebrating 100 Years of Innovative Solutions Automotive Product Solutions SKF developed the world’s first hub bearing units and the first custom-designed engine oil seals. Today, SKF’s concept is to offer high quality products and premium services to our customers, whether their profession involves maintaining vehicles or supplying products to those who do. SKF’s range of products and services is the result of relentless innovation and constant improvement in the design of all critical components, from engines and electronics to driveline and wheel-end systems. SKF continues to take part in the on-going endeavor in developing its services and state-of-the-art products. SKF South Africa is celebrating 100 years of innovative solutions during 2014. Drawing on five areas of competence and application-specific expertise (bearings and units, seals, lubrication systems, mechatronics and a wide range of services), SKF brings innovative solutions to OEMs and production facilities in every major industry worldwide. The Power of Knowledge Engineering SKF South Africa (Pty) Limited Tel: +27 11 821 3500, Fax: +27 86 677 7876 Email: sales.za@skf.com, Web: www.skf.co.za Convenient, Connected, Clever and Costeffective (the 5 C’s) mobility solutions to customers. The company has one of the largest deployed fleets of electric cars in the world with customers in 24 countries who have driven their Reva cars for more than 200 million kilomet &W2