India’s electric vehicle drive: Challenges and opportunities
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Great to see another one of TDB's scale up aid. TDB‑DST has a mandate/fund to help scale home‑grown deep-tech firms that have clear commercialization pathways.
TDB‑DST is backing Indi Energy (Sodium-Ion Battery) for the indigenous production of adv anode materials, to help commercial-scale hard-carbon production for grid, backup & low-speed EV applications.
Indi Energy has built pilot-scale infra & is positioned as indigenous SIB player with bio-waste-derived hard-carbon proprietary anodes (BioBlack™), cathode & electrolyte IP, claiming reversible capacities around 300 mAh/g with established supply chains at pilot/early commercial stage.
The Technology Development Board (TDB), Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, has extended financial assistance to Indigenous Energy Storage Technologies Private Limited, Roorkee, Uttarakhand for the project titled “Commercialization of Bio-waste / Agricultural Waste Derived Hard Carbon for Sodium-Ion Batteries.” The project aims to establish indigenous capabilities for the production of advanced anode materials, contributing to the development of cost-effective and sustainable energy storage technologies in the country.
The TDB-supported project focuses on the commercial-scale production of hard carbon derived from bio-waste and agricultural residues, to be used as a key anode material in sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). Sodium-ion technology is emerging as a viable alternative to conventional lithium-ion systems, particularly for applications such as grid-scale energy storage, UPS/inverter systems, solar street lighting, and low-speed electric mobility, including e-rickshaws, e-scooters, and e-cycles.
Read here: https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2248203®=3&lang=2
This is the biggest issue i saw when travelling long distance with an EV.