Author: Anirban Roy

India’s EV Charging Roll Out, ‘Patla Pin’ Magic, And More Challenges

For a nation that embraced the mobile phone with breakneck speed, pricey prices notwithstanding, the heyday of Nokia phones in the late 90s and through early 2000s became synonymous with the thin-pin charger, which was very popular and ubiquitous at the time. Such was its ubiquity that it was assumed that everyone or every home […]

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Time To Consider An EV In Delhi. 2020 Policy Announced by CM Kejriwal

The Delhi government launched its new electric vehicle policy on Friday aimed at curbing pollution in the national capital, amongst the world’s most polluted cities, and also to create jobs and boost the local economy. For the past few years, Delhi has been facing a recurring problem with air pollution during winter with thick smog […]

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As Thousands in California Suffer ‘Planned’ Outages, the Case for Solar Storage Presents Itself

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), the largest utility responsible for providing power to California, started cutting off power to thousands of residents on Wednesday. This was done to prevent the eruption of wildfires like last year. Many residents find that their solar installations are of no help due to one reason. Pacific Gas and Electric, […]

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Work on Lithium-Ion Batteries

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2019 has been awarded jointly to Akira Yoshino, John B. Goodenough and M. Stanley Whittingham for the development of lithium-ion batteries. Making the announcement in Stockholm, the Nobel Committee said that the winners have “created a rechargeable world’, underscoring the critical role their find has made in our lives […]

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Gadkari Predicts: All Buses in India Will Switch to Electric in 2 Years

Only electric buses will run across India in the next two years and that too without making it mandatory, Nitin Gadkari, India’s road transport and highways minister, said in New Delhi on Sept. 23. Speaking at an event on energy efficiency in micro, small and medium enterprises, Gadkari said that cost-saving in running Internal Combustion […]

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