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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
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Automotive Product
Solutions
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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