Central and state Power Ministers are slated to brainstorm over how to realise the 'Saubhagya' scheme target of reaching electricity to all households by the end of 2018, at a two-day meeting in Bihar beginning on Friday, an official statement said here. The conference of Power and New and Renewabl... Read more

Suzuki Motor Corporation’s (SMC’s) CEO said at the company’s FY2017 second-quarter financial results presentation that, when it comes to India, the sudden shift to electrification could catch them unprepared as their volumes are very large, as reported by Reuters. For the Japanese manufacture... Read more

Pune, India: India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) has been conferred with the Independent Power Producers Association of India (IPPAI) Award in the category of Innovative Initiative in Energy Storage 2017 at its 18th Regulators & Policymakers Retreat. The eminent Jury consists of Prof SL Rao (F... Read more

The government of India has invited proposals from cities with population above a million for extending grants under the FAME India scheme to promote large-scale adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in multi-modal public transport. Using clean energy modes like electric vehicles for shared mass trans... Read more

M.V. Ramana says nuclear energy is fraught with risks and is expensive  India would do well to invest in research and development of storage technologies instead of trying to build more nuclear plants, leading physicist M.V. Ramana has said even as he criticised both the UPA and the NDA government... Read more

With the renewed focus on eMobility and Indian government’s plan to move to 100 percent electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030, the industry is waiting for the final eMobility policy from Niti Aayog. The Progressive States such as Telangana is aggressively looking at this space. Telangana government has ... Read more

The Centre has invited proposals from cities with a population above 10 lakh for extending grants under the FAME India scheme to promote large-scale adoption of electric vehicles in multi-modal public transport. Using clean energy modes like electric vehicles for shared mass transport will help bri... Read more

Enevate, located in Irvine, California, claims its latest silicon-dominant lithium-ion battery technology makes 5 minutes charging possible. In a press release, the company says an electric car equipped with one of its batteries can add 240 miles of range in just 5 minutes or 50 miles of range in a ... Read more

Heat, bad roads and lack of govt. support are among challenges India has a long way to go before electric vehicles replaced those with internal combustion engines, said Nicholas Thomas, Global Director of Electric Vehicles, Nissan Motors. He was participating in the ‘Auto 3.0: Rebooting to Elect... Read more

Barely a year old, bootstrapped firm Twenty Two Motors has ventured into the electric vehicle segment in India with its smart electric scooter Flow. Started by IIT graduates Parveen Kharb and Vijay Chandrawat in August 2016, the company is the latest in a long list of startups that smell an opportu... Read more

State-run Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) will float a new tender to procure 20,000 electric cars as the central government plans to electrify its car fleet in next 4-5 years confirms CNBC-TV18. Other sources aware of this plan believe that the contract may be worth Rs 2,300 crore and the ... Read more

High tax on batteries used in electric vehicles under the goods and services tax regime may prove a major roadblock to the government’s drive to push e-vehicles, industry insiders say.  Under the new indirect tax regime, while electric vehicles sold with batteries are charged 12% GST, batteries ... Read more