Lithium-Ion Battery

The founder of Bengaluru-based startup Metastable Materials, IIT grad Shubham Vishvakarma has innovated a sustainable technology that can extract valuable elements from dead Lithium-ion batteries.

Given the abundance of zinc in India, researchers at IIT-Madras are developing mechanically-rechargeable zinc-air batteries as an alternative to Lithium-ion batteries which are used in electric vehicles.

inGO Electric, a startup founded by Nikhil Gonsalves, is looking at a battery range of 80 km for their latest version of the Tron e-scooter, following the installation of the indigenous tropicalised-ion battery (TiB).

Puneet Jain, CEO of Jaipur-based Natural Battery Technologies, started his EV venture in 2019 with an initial investment of Rs 2 lakh. The company is now making revenue of Rs 11 crore/year.

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Hyderabad-based Allox, co-founded by Mourya and Rajiv Reddy in 2016, claims to be India’s leading producer of carbon-coated lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4), which is used as a cathode material in lithium-ion batteries.

Experts argue that transitioning from lithium-ion batteries to sodium-ion batteries would make electric vehicles “cheaper than IC-engine vehicles even without subsidies”. But how feasible is this?

Slated for launch on 2 November 2021, the Indus NX electric scooter, manufactured by Mumbai-based Raft Motors, could end up becoming a game-changer for its battery range.

Pune-based EV startup Felidae Electric is offering a conversion kit for regular bicycles to turn them into electric cycles with a top speed of 25 kmph.

Vikas Aggarwal, Founder and Managing Director of IPower, speaks about how the family-owned business ventured into the electric vehicle (EV) sector in 2011. They now make lithium-ion battery packs for approximately 100 OEMs across two, three and four-wheeler makers.