New Delhi: Tata Power joint venture firm Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd (TPDDL) on Thursday announced its partnership with SUN Mobility to set up a network of ”Battery Swap Points” across North and North-West Delhi. Tata Power-DDL, India”s leading power distribution utility serving a populace of 7 million in Delhi, has partnered with SUN Mobility, […]
IPower Batteries bags award for Prestigious brand of Asia in Rising Category: Lithium-Ion Batteries
Delhi: Pioneers and leading manufacturers of clean and green batteries in the country- IPower Batteries has been awarded the Prestigious Brands of Asia in Rising category: Lithium-Ion Batteries for the year 2021 for their innovative and clean battery products with record capacity manufacturing. The company also has pan-India after sales service with over 200+ sales […]
Volkswagen-backed Northvolt charges up: ‘We want to build the world’s greenest battery’
Northvolt’s head of battery systems, Emad Zand, explains to Recharge how the start-up plans to scale-up its storage systems production Swedish start-up Northvolt last month declared it would build Europe’s largest factory for energy storage systems in Gdansk, Poland, by next year. Emad Zand, the company’s president of battery systems, speaks with Recharge about how […]
IOC, Israeli firm form JV to to manufacture metal-air batteries for EVs
New Delhi: State-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Israeli battery developer Phinergy on Wednesday formalised a joint venture to manufacture ultra-lightweight metal-air batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), a venture that got its first customers in Maruti Suzuki and Ashok Leyland. The equal joint venture will replace lithium with aluminum to make batteries that will charge […]
Renault sees its electric, hybrid car sales doubling in 2021
Renault developed electric cars earlier than many rivals, but a major push across the industry has altered the field The group aims to make 30% of sales for the Renault brand from fully electric cars by 2025, with another 35% from hybrid models France’s Renault expects its sales of electric and hybrid cars to more […]
Dutch Firm Signs Nigerian Deal to Recycle Solar Power Batteries
Lumos Global BV signed a deal with Hinckley Group to recycle thousands of lithium batteries as the Dutch company specializing in off-grid power in West Africa sees strong sales growth amid the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The Amsterdam-based company already delivered 10,000 lithium batteries to Hinckley to recycle at its facility, a first of […]
Indonesia offers aggressive tax benefits for electric vehicles
Battery-powered electric vehicles will retain their 0% luxury tax rate, while plug-in hybrid vehicles will see their tariff increase to 5% from 0%, according to a draft regulation issued by the finance ministry on Monday. Indonesia, a top supplier of a key battery metal, will aim to boost sales of electric vehicles with a new […]
EU’s push for ethically sourced batteries will make electric vehicles more expensive
EU has been calling for responsibly-sourced cobalt, which will make the key battery metal expensive as the supply will be squeezed. Artisanal miners work at the Tilwizembe, a former industrial copper-cobalt mine, outside of Kolwezi, the capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (PC-REUTERS/Kenny Katombe) With the […]
Booming electric vehicle sales drive surge in cobalt prices
Payables – a reference to the percentage of the cobalt metal price used to price hydroxide, a feedstock for electric vehicle (EV) batteries – are up at around 93-94% from about 63-69% a year ago, analysts from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence said. LONDON: Demand and prices for battery material cobalt are soaring as electric vehicles stream […]
Battery exchange station edges closer with European-Japanese cooperation
Four major motorcycle manufacturers are planning to jointly develop an electric battery. This should accelerate the popularity of electric motorcycles and scooters. The Italian Piaggio, the Austrian KTM and Honda and Yamaha from Japan have joined forces. In a letter of intent this week, they wrote that they plan to “form a consortium for the […]