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EV

Feature

re-use by battery manufacturers is a welcome step in
the right direction.

Future of EVs in India
The Indian EV industry confronts openly, that a lot needs
to be done to achieve the ambitious 2030 target. For a
country like India, considering the huge demographics
and the population, there is a huge potential in terms of
the growth opportunities within this market.

The current disruption could serve as an excellent
opportunity, specially to our domestic manufacturers &
in Argentina or 60,000 tonnes in Portugal, 14,100 Tonnes suppliers for further scaling up the EV related R & D in
in India. topics like charging infrastructure, new-age materials
for batteries or in encouraging efficient Giga-factories
So far, in the absence of local mines for Lithium, India to create India specific products, while building for the
has set up Khanij Bidesh India Ltd to source and acquire world. It’s also time to leverage on the special privileges
mines in Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile.
provided in the new electrification
Niti Aayog has set an ambitious goal of building up to 10 policies & the self-reliance programs
large factories to produce lithium-ion batteries over the introduced by the government in
next 10 years. shaping India’s EV paradigm on a

Hence, securing reliable, economical supplies of Lithium fastrack basis.
or researching and adapting to alternate battery Girish Ramaswamy
technologies such as Aluminum-Air batteries, Zinc-Air Head of Location, Bengaluru &
batteries, Graphene, carbon-tubes electrodes or solid- Head of System Engineering, India
state ones should be explored. Vitesco Technologies India Pvt. Ltd,
References:
Initiatives akin to
1. https://yourstory.com/journal/micro-mobility-
a) The recent Delhi EV policy 2020, which encourages edc6x8f1y1
the reuse of EV batteries that have reached the end
of their life. 2. https://swachhindia.ndtv.com/india-push-to-go-
electric-status-of-charging-infrastructure-for-electric-
b) Setting up of recycling businesses in collaboration vehicles-32631/
with battery and EV manufacturers that focus on
‘urban mining’ of rare materials within the battery for 3. https://www.iadb.org/en/improvinglives/lithium-
white-gold-regions-development

4. http://www.siam.in/
5. https://www.india.gov.in/spotlight/building-
atmanirbhar-bharat-overcoming-COVID-19
Bolivia China U.S.A.
Argentina 14.69% 7.35% 11.10% 6. https://niti.gov.in/documents/reports
24.16%
7. https://transport.delhi.gov.in/sites/default/files/All-
PDF/Delhi_Electric_Vehicles_Policy_2020.pdf

Chile Other countries 8. https://kum.karnataka.gov.in/KUM/PDFS/
Australia 13.88% 15.32% KEVESPPolicyInsidepagesfinal.pdf
12.57%
9. https://www.nsgm.gov.in/sites/default/files/SG-
Vision-Mission-Goals.pdf

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