as the world outraged over breach of user data on social networking platform facebook mm chairman anand mahindra tweeted beginning to wonder if its time to consider having our own social networking company that is very widely owned professionally managed willingly regulated any relevant indian startups out there if any young teams have such plans id like to see if i can assist with seed capital mahindras penchant for disruption is nothing new it was the only indian company that manufactures electric vehicles the maker of e2o and everito electric cars made waves last year when its mahindra racing finished 3rd in the recently concluded formula e racing competition ahead of global brands like jaguar just behind renault and audi mm is building an allelectric luxury car being designed by pininfarina with a new 360600v power train a few weeks ago mm announced the launch of its luxury electric vehicles brand automobili pininfarina it plans to launch its first model a pininfarinabadged electric hypercar in 2020 the mahindra group has bet big on electric vehicles they are the future and when power beauty and highend ev technology come together in one car that will be the perfect luxury vehicle that will give car lovers the freedom to roam without impacting the planet adversely mahindra said now it is stepping into the domain of autonomous vehicles too recently mm the worlds largest tractor maker by volumes has moved a step closer to bringing in the first driverless tractor to india last week it rolled out a hightech semiautonomous tractor on its nagpur manufacturing line the pack 1 with a soft launch scheduled in a month with select farmers these tractors offer a range of solutions in precision farming and remote driving the company calls it a pack 1 version the development work on fully autonomous tractor called pack 2 is also under works paucity of labour is a big concern in agriculture and if the autonomous tractor were to become real it may turn into a big boon if it was accessible and affordable say experts we have a potential agriculture revolution around the corner we are working all these areas because our mission is to seize every chance to give india what it needs to meet the growing food demands mahindra had said last year addressing the shareholders at the 71st annual general meeting in the previous agm with the evolution of technology mahindra feels the country is on the cusp of a new era of farming last agm he had informed shareholders that mm has already started working on autonomous tractors leading mahindras agenda of disruption and innovation is mms secretive blue lab set up in april 2015 blue lab is a community of innovators who meet thrice a year with the objective of creating a physical proof of concept of some of the ideas pawan goenka executive director of mahindra and mahindra told mint last year that the companys aero concept showcased at the 2016 auto