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March 4, 2020 by Team EAI
There was a recent news item about Tata Power planning 700 EV charging stations. The company has already installed 100 charging stations in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune and Hyderabad which it plans to take to 300 by Mar 2020... They are essentially mapping cities where EVs are being launched and...
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March 4, 2020 by Team EAI
Here's an interesting, recent news item. Reserves of lithium, critical for EV batteries, found near Bengaluru (Source: Economic Times, Feb 19 2020) So far, it's been the Lithium triangle in south America (Argentina, Bolivia and Chile) along with Australia and China that have been home to the world's large deposits of Lithium. The world has...
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March 4, 2020 by Team EAI
Earlier this year, EVNext prepared an extensive database of companies in the Indian EV ecosystem - both startups and established companies. We have identified close to 200 startups, and about 100 companies from the established corporates that are having a skin in the electric vehicle game. And you have read a lot...
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March 4, 2020 by Team EAI
Could India face a scarcity of Lithium in future on its road to electrifying its transport? This topic has been discussed so many times (including in a recent news item) at so many forums in India that a reader would assume that the shortage (or imminent shortage) of Lithum is a...
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March 4, 2020 by Team EAI
Introduction At EAI's consulting division and more so at EV Next, our specialty consulting division for e-mobility and electric vehicles, we get a number of enquiries from large companies as well as startups/small businesses keen on investing in the battery space. It is fairly clear to most of them that...
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March 4, 2020 by Team EAI
A recent news item from Bloomberg mentioned that financial analysts were rating Tesla higher for something beyond cars: Its solar power generation and energy storage (battery) business. Mainly because they all feel that solar + storage could provide the company as much as its electric cars do. You might wonder what...
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March 4, 2020 by Team EAI
Recently, Maruti's managing director & CEO Kenichi Ayukawa told FE there are no immediate plans to launch electric cars as the government support is not enough and cost of developing them is too high. While Hyundai has already launched its Kona in India, it has said it could take a...
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March 4, 2020 by Team EAI
One of the hotly debated topics in the battery sector is the possible estimates for Li-ion batteries in the 2020-2030 period. Not surprising, as battery prices to a significant extent determine the final cost and hence affordability of electric vehicles. This post delves into the topic of battery prices and...
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March 4, 2020 by Team EAI
Volkswagen, until recently the world's second most valuable car company by market cap (it was overtaken by Tesla in Feb 2020) is really preparing to take on Tesla in the electric vehicle arena. And why not? With electric vehicles being projected as being the dominant road transport technology, why would...
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March 4, 2020 by Team EAI
The EV Next team had been to the Auto Expo 2020 at Noida. We spent two days scouring all the halls (there were 10+ halls) for the latest in autos and electric vehicles in particular. And as a report in the Hindu BusinessLine says, the show overall was a bit...
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