Achieved 92% localisation, 1.2K key components, EV battery packs localised: Hyundai IndiaHyundai Motor India achieved 92% localisation in manufacturing, with over 1,200 components and EV battery packs made locally. The company a...
21 Jan, 2025, 08.07 PM IST
Energy transition: India remains highly dependent on imports of critical minerals, says reportIndia relies heavily on imports for critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and nickel. The demand for these minerals may more than double ...
28 Oct, 2024, 12.08 PM IST
Is India ready to recycle millions of end-of-life EV batteries?As India embraces electric vehicles to combat pollution and reduce oil dependency, the importance of lithium battery recycling becomes evid...
02 Aug, 2024, 01.06 PM IST
Nobel laureate John Goodenough, who co-created lithium-ion battery, passes away at 100John Goodenough, one of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on the development of the lithium-ion battery, passed...
27 Jun, 2023, 08.31 AM IST
The great lithium pushIndia is now the eighth-largest lithium reserve country thanks to discovery in Jammu & Kashmir. This find has the potential to alter the sp...
11 Apr, 2023, 12.58 PM IST
Epsilon Carbon subsidiary is scouting investors for EV cell material bizEpsilon Advanced Materials, a subsidiary of Epsilon Carbon, is looking to raise about Rs 1,200 crore from investors to fund its operations ...
21 Oct, 2022, 01.08 PM IST
Volkswagen teams up with Canada in battery materials pushVolkswagen teams up with Canada in battery materials push. The move comes as Volkswagen rolls out its electric vehicle expansion strategy g...
23 Aug, 2022, 08.55 PM IST
Who says China has locked in the EV supply chain?After effectively popularizing safer and cheaper lithium iron phosphate, or LFP, chemistry for EV batteries, China’s Contemporary Amperex T...
27 Jul, 2022, 09.07 AM IST
Epsilon Carbon looks to make cathodes for lithium-ion cells amidst EV boom, ties up with US companyEpsilon Carbon has tied up with US-based The Metals Company to study the feasibility of extracting rare metals used in lithium-ion cells fr...
19 Apr, 2022, 05.39 PM IST
All you need to know about battery fires in EVsAt the heart of the problem is the fragile nature of lithium to high temperatures. All batteries work best when they are at roomtemperature...
11 Apr, 2022, 06.05 PM IST
DRDO arm to probe EV fires"Any e-vehicles that use lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt-oxide,, abbreviated as NMC technology, can eventually be investigated. The technol...
30 Mar, 2022, 12.53 AM IST
Karnataka's first ever rollout of Electric Buses for public transportationStating that 25 buses have been flagged off today out of the first batch of 40 electric buses delivered by the company to BMTC, it said the...
27 Dec, 2021, 08.12 PM IST
Advanced lithium-ion technologies on track for record annual investmentThe investment in advanced lithium-ion technologies was over $600 million for 2018, indicating 2019 to be a record year for expenditure. Th...
28 Oct, 2019, 05.58 PM IST
New way to create fast-charging lithium-ion batteries discoveredA lithium-ion battery charges and discharges as lithium ions move between two electrodes, called an anode and a cathode.
16 Apr, 2019, 08.55 PM IST
Battery makers worry lithium will replace oil in the import billTaiwan-based power management firm Delta Electronics is also making plans for India. It has bought 65 acres in Krishnagiri near Bengaluru f...
16 Apr, 2018, 01.02 PM IST
New technique to make fuel cells more energy efficientA nanosize squeeze can significantly boost the performance of platinum catalysts that help generate energy in fuel cells, according to scie...
25 Nov, 2016, 04.22 PM IST
Soon, a powerful, cheaper battery for electric carsA next-generation cheaper, lighter and more powerful rechargeable battery for electric vehicles is one step closer to reality.
14 Jan, 2015, 11.53 AM IST