The recent announcement from the Indian minister for heavy industry Mr Nitin Gadkari, was to move to electric cars. India will be an all electric car country by 2030 as by the new set target. Hence there are many upcoming electric cars in India in 2018 also. The time has started and the clock is alr... Read more

December 2016. Masayoshi Son, founder and chairman of Japan’s SoftBank, was upbeat. He had just met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to highlight the company’s commitment to India. One of Son’s wishes for Ola, a cab aggregator that SoftBank has invested in since 2014, veered between eccentric and ... Read more

Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENPH), a global energy technology company and the world’s leading supplier of solar microinverters, today announced the opening of its first R&D center in Bangalore, India to establish a best-in-class technology development center. India is powering the growth of ... Read more

Despite advances in overall global electrification rates, access to electricity is still far from achieved. As of today, 1.1 billion people remain without access to electricity, which includes over 550 million people in Africa and 300 million people in India alone (International Energy Agency, 2012)... Read more

A recent study by global financial services company UBS predicts that one out of every six cars sold anywhere in the world will be electric by 2025. “The shift to electric cars will come faster and in a more pronounced way, fueled by the diesel demise in Europe, battery technology advancements and... Read more

Hriman Motors LLP, a Delhi-headquartered startup, in a view to enhance India's growing e-vehicle ecosystem, is working on building a serious 2 seater electric car with a battery that will never need to be replaced. The RT90 will offer a 4G Connected IOT platform, with 200kms max travel range per cha... Read more

The Karnataka government today said it would soon unveil an action plan for implementation of its electric vehicle and energy storage policy aimed at creating a conducive environment and necessary infrastructure for electric mobility in the city. Stakeholders would meet Chief Minister Siddaramaiah ... Read more

NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Thursday said there is a need to find a technological breakthrough to bring down the cost of battery used in electric cars. "Despite all the talk, the total number of electric vehicles at present is only one percent," Kant noted while speaking at the eighth Global Ent... Read more

Electric vehicles are set to get a major push from Narendra Modi government with Niti Aayog preparing a Cabinet note on ways to incentivise zero-emission transport, Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari told News18. In an exclusive message to congratulate the nominees of the ... Read more

The power stored in electric cars could be sent back to the grid – thereby supporting the grid and acting as a potential storage for clean energy – but it will only be economically viable if we upgrade the system first. In a study, published in the journal Energy Policy, two scientists showed ho... Read more

The Telangana government will next month launch its policy for electric vehicles to provide incentives to manufacturers and private players setting up charging stations, a senior government official said on Thursday. Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary, Industry, Commerce and Information Technology,... Read more

Gujarat, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra have emerged as the top 5 states in electric vehicle (EV) sales, the Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV) said on Thursday. A SMEV survey of EVs sold during the last fiscal showed that 1,926 of these were sold in Mahara... Read more