Interest in electric vehicles (EVs) is getting super hot in India. Having missed out on building its own manufacturing base for solar PV, India seems conscious about not missing the EV opportunity, especially for lithium-ion battery manufacturing (LIB). Through programs like “Make in India” and by providing special manufacturing zones with infrastructure, connectivity, and cheap […]
GEDA invites EOI for Authorization of Manufacturers For Marketing & Distribution of Battery Operated Vehicles (BOVs) Low speed & High speed Two wheelers
Authorization of Manufacturers For Marketing & Distribution of Battery Operated Vehicles (BOVs) Low speed & High speed Two wheelers with advance battery in Gujarat State under GEDA Subsidy scheme Ye For more information please see below link:
GEDA invites EOI for Authorization of Manufacturers For Marketing & Distribution of Battery Operated Three Wheelers
Authorization of Manufacturers For Marketing & Distribution of Battery Operated Three Wheelers (E-Rickshaws) with advance battery in Gujarat State under GEDA Subsidy scheme 2019-20 For more information please see below link:
MG says sales of full battery electric car to begin in September
MG has just announced that the all-electric version of its ZS SUV/crossover will go on sale in the UK in September this year, with an on-the-road starting price of £28,495 (around $A50,500 plus the usual Australian mark-ups). After deducting the UK Government’s low emission vehicle grant of £3500 (plus a matching discount from MG), that […]
EV Giants Vie For Battery Dominance
While researchers seek alternatives to lithium ion dominance in the battery space and European carmakers and governments pour billions into local battery production capacity to reduce import dependence, the leaders in the EV space cement their position with—that’s right—batteries. Tesla is the most sold battery electric vehicle globally as of end-2018. Nissan with its Leaf […]
Major battery manufacturing facility opens its gates in Sunderland
Operated by North East tech firm Hyperdrive Innovation, the new facility will be capable of producing up to 30,000 packs a year North East clean tech innovator Hyperdrive is opening a major new battery manufacturing facility in Sunderland today, built to meet surging demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage systems. Hyperdrive, a leading […]
Blackstone Resources to Build World-Class Solid-State Battery
BAAR, Switzerland: Blackstone Resources AG (SWX: BLS) has teamed up with several strategic partners from Germany, Belgium, Poland and Austria, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. It has started to build and will finance its own research team with these partners. These include research specialists from a number of disciplines that are based at the Fraunhofer […]
Georgia Power wants to own and operate 80MW of battery ESS to ‘maximise value of renewables’
Utility Georgia Power wants to own and operate 80MW of battery energy storage systems in its service area, building on the state’s early recent steps to investigate the value of storage both in front of and behind the electricity meter. Georgia Power has just made a request to raise residential rates in order to invest […]
Charge and discharge cycles are a meaningless metric, SolarEdge founder says
The way the industry talks about batteries needs to change, SolarEdge founder Lior Handelsman has said, arguing that knowing the number of cycles of charge and discharge a battery can perform in its lifetime is essentially “meaningless”. The company’s frequently outspoken VP of marketing and product strategy spoke with Energy-Storage.news at SolarEdge’s main R&D centre […]
Need to focus on grid-connected storage policy for investment in battery technology: Experts
Power sector experts Thursday stressed the need for announcing a 100 GW grid-connected storage programme that will help India attract investments in battery technology space. The views came forth at a conference in the national capital. The experts and industry players were on the same page for India taking lead over other countries in setting […]
