India has a vibrant market for batteries and inverters and even diesel generators – but a cynic could call these responses to the failure of the grid in providing quality supply. Are microgrids similarly stepping in to fill gaps in grid-based supply? This Impact Series Paper revisits the fundament... Read more

Research carried out at the University of Technology (LUT) in Finland has found that India will have the capacity to operate on a fully renewable electricity system by 2050. It’s a big claim for a nation of more than a billion people, many of whom still live without electricity at all. So what wou... Read more

Recently a Tesla car running on autopilot crashed and killed its driver in California. A few weeks earlier, a self-driving Volvo under test by Uber killed a pedestrian in Arizona. Driverless, self-driving and autonomous are used interchangeably. Electric vehicles, of course, need not be driverless.... Read more

It’s a hot afternoon in Diu. The sleepy island, with just over 50,000 people, is among the top 10 least populated districts in India. And it shows. The beaches are clean and quiet. Waterfront promenades are deserted — so are the markets. Even booze shops, which get droves of weekend visitors fro... Read more

“You have to match the convenience of the gasoline car in order for people to buy an electric car,” opines Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, the “Iron Man” of the tech world. With governments, the world over, doubling down to lower the cost of electric vehicles and expedite their adoption amo... Read more

EnerBlu has only recently started building its first battery manufacturing plant in the US, but its chief strategy officer, Robert Pedraza, is already eyeing the Chennai Metropolitan Transport Corporation as a potential customer. “Current lithium ion batteries (LiB) cannot operate in extreme temp... Read more

India’s electric vehicle sector is progressing steadily, thanks to government efforts to procure EVs for various departments and efforts by city transportation corporations to procure e-buses for public transportation. As things shape up for the better in the country’s EV sector, various nation... Read more

NITI Aayog has submitted a draft Cabinet note on developing a strategy for zero emission vehicles and ancillary technology, Parliament was informed today.In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Planning Rao Inderjit Singh said that in order to promote electric vehicles, NITI Aayog... Read more

About 90 per cent of the Indian car owners would opt for an electric car, provided the right infrastructure is made available, along with optimum support system for maintenance of their electric cars, according to Velocity MR, a market research and analysis company. The research company has done a ... Read more

NITI Aayog has submitted a draft Cabinet note on developing a strategy for zero emission vehicles and ancillary technology, Parliament was informed today. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Planning Rao Inderjit Singh said that in order to promote electric vehicles, NITI Aay... Read more

Indian Origin British Billionaire and the Executive Chairman of Liberty House Group, Sanjeev Gupta has hinted that it could start building Formula 1-inspired electric vehicles in India and Australia early next decade confirmed a report on Bloomberg. Sanjeev is considering to add automobiles to its e... Read more

Clean energy company Avaada Power is looking to set up floating solar projects and for this it is in talks with various states governments and expects some large tenders to be floated in the next 2 months. Speaking on the matter, Avaada Group, Chairman, Vineet Mittal said, the floating solar segmen... Read more