Tesla chief Elon Musk will visit India this month to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is expected to make an announcement related to his plans to invest and open a new factory in the country, two sources with direct knowledge said. The billionaire executive will meet Modi in the week of April 22 in … Read more
Hyundai Motor Company (HMC) and group firm Kia Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Exide Energy Solutions Ltd (EES) for electric vehicle battery localisation in India. (EES is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Exide Industries. It was established in 2022 to foray into the business of manufacturing Lithium-ion cells, modules and packs incorporating … Read more
This was being expected for long but couldn’t happen before as individual businesses were not stabilised and needed to support each other. Finally, given Tata Motors’ (TML) significant turnaround across businesses in the last 2-3 years, it is separating the Commercial Vehicles (CV) and Passenger Vehicles (PV) businesses. all the CV business and its related … Read more
The Union ministry of heavy industries, which implements the government’s production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for advanced automotive technologies, is aiming for all the 85 applicants to receive the approval certification against the scheme’s domestic value-addition (DVA) criteria by July 2024, its secretary Kamran Rizvi said. “We are confident our PLI scheme will clear any audit … Read more
Khanij Bidesh India Ltd (KABIL), a joint venture of state-run miners, has inked India’s first overseas lithium exploration and mining deal involving five blocks in Argentina, setting off New Delhi’s overseas hunt for the critical mineral to loosen China’s stranglehold on a key element of energy transition. “The deal will help India strengthen lithium supplies, … Read more
EV-ready highways in India! The Indian government is planning to construct electric vehicle-ready highways on the Golden Quadrilateral, a network of highways connecting major cities, in order to reduce fuel consumption and vehicular emissions through the use of electric intercity public transport. The government aims to develop 6,000 km of these highways over the next … Read more
The move comes as Europe and the United States scramble to wean themselves off rare earths from China. File. China, the world’s top processor of rare earths, on December 21 banned the export of technology to extract and separate the strategic metals, as it overhauled a list of technologies deemed key to national security. The … Read more
According to the policy, the state wants all cab aggregators and delivery service providers to transition towards 100% electric vehicles by calendar year 2030. The policy entails 5% EVs in fleet of the likes of Uber and Ola in six months, 50% in three years and 100% in five years. After three years, only EVs … Read more