In accordance with the latest annunciation of Mahindra & Mahindra, worldwide celebrated Indian manufacturer, it is setting up a micro-hybrid version of the Xylo MPV, to be launched by the end of this year. The hybrid Xylo would preview the Reva electric vehicles Mahindra will roll out in 2011. "We plan to launch the Xylo micro-hybrid before the end of the year," Pawan Goenka, Mahindra & Mahindra president was quoted as saying by Business Standard. "A lot of work is going on at the moment and the launch of the new Reva NXR and NXG should be by Q4 of 2011."

It is to be noted that the micro-hybrids happens to be a fancy name for a technology that became well-known in the spheres of Europe and North America in the form of start/stop. It should be noted that such a system does enable a vehicle to deactivate the engine while remaining inactive and start it again the instant the accelerator is pressed.

Mahindra & Mahindra, at this time, has, in keeping with Goenka, in the region of 50,000 vehicles operational with this system on the roads. The Xylo micro-hybrid will be the third such vehicle in the lineup, after the Scorpio and he Bolero Maxitruck. It has also been learnt from the company sources that Xylo MPV will also be perceived on the streets of Europe by the early 2011.

If we recall, only in the month of May this year, Mahindra did pay for a 55.2 percent equity in Reva. Thanks to this development, it did turn out to be a global player in the electric vehicle world. Reva\'s EV technology will be adapted for the Mahindra Maxximo minitruck.

Mahindra & Mahindra Limited is part of the Mahindra Group, an automotive, farm equipment, financial services, trade and logistics, automotive components, after-market, IT and infrastructure conglomerate.