Even as a roadmap on electric mobility is awaited from the government, the domestic automobile industry on Wednesday came up with a white paper that states its own targets for electric vehicles in the country. The paper brought out by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), the apex ... Read more

India’s largest luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz India Pvt. Ltd has called for tax breaks for the automobile industry to build a sustainable business model for electric vehicles in the country. In an interview, managing director and chief executive Roland Folger said his company would like to manuf... Read more

Toyota Motor Corp is considering making batteries for electric vehicles (EV) with Panasonic Corp, as it ramps up battery development to help meet its goal for green cars to comprise half of the global sales by 2030. The joint announcement on Wednesday builds on an existing agreement under which Pana... Read more

The subject of electric mobility and associated business opportunities is fast turning into the prime topic of discussion within India’s automotive industry and its key stakeholders as they evaluate EV manufacturing-related processes across the supply chain and the EV business model for the domest... Read more

This past week marked a major win for the global electric vehicles market. PepsiCo, a brand normally associated with beverages and snacks, recently became an exemplary champion of the EV cause, when it made the biggest public pre-order of Tesla Semis till date. Given that heavy-duty vehicles involv... Read more

Last week, Tata Motors rolled out the first batch of Tigor electric cars from its Sanand plant. And now the company has delivered the first batch to Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL), a government-run body. Present at the hand over function were Guenter Butschek, CEO and MD, Tata Motors, Saurabh... Read more

The government is planning to fine electricity distributors from April 2019 for avoidable power cuts and to make it mandatory for the companies to install prepaid or smart meters to prevent electricity theft. The move comes as a part of the government's Rs 16,000 crore Saubhagya scheme launched in S... Read more

The indian subsidiary of Swedish e-auto rickshaw maker Clean Motion is looking to source lithium-ion batteries from a local supplier Exicom Power Solutions and other vendors in the country. The commercial launch will take place over the next 12-18 months. The company is also likely to sign a MoU wi... Read more

India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indo-German Energy Forum (IGEF) to promote and facilitate energy storage business among various German and Indian stakeholders. The MoU signing took place at Intersolar India 2017. IESA is working pro... Read more

The world's biggest lithium-ion battery has plugged into an Australian state grid, an official said today, easily delivering on Tesla Inc. chief executive Elon Musk's 100-day guarantee. Musk promised to build the 100-megawatt battery within 100 days of the contracts being signed at the end of Septe... Read more

Half a billion people have gained access to electricity in India since 2000, almost doubling the country’s electrification rate, according to the World Energy Access report released on Wednesday by the International Energy Agency (IEA). This “remarkable” growth puts India on course to achievin... Read more

Mahindra & Mahindra the only carmaker that sells electric cars in India on Wednesday said that it will have three new offerings in the space by 2019-20. "We will have three new products (in the EV or electric vehicle space) which will be high-performance ones," Mahindra Electric Mobility CEO (ch... Read more