The Volta Foundation in its latest 2024 report, based on its Gigafactory track, has identified 10 Indian companies planning major expansions in India’s battery sector. Some of the key players include Reliance in Gujarat (50 GWh), Amara Raja in Telangana (16 GWh), Exide in Karnataka (12 GWh), Godi in Hyderabad (12 GWh), OLA in Tamil […]
Reliance Industries, in its Integrated Annual Report 2023-24, shared its plans to commission its first solar Gigafactory in FY25, with most of the company’s renewable energy development and manufacturing operations at Jamnagar. In its business review, Reliance highlighted the growth the company has achieved from 2023 to 2024. Regarding its renewable energy (RE) plans, Reliance […]
Ather Energy has established two manufacturing facilities in Hosur, Tamil Nadu: one for battery production and another for vehicle assembly. Recently, the company announced plans to build a new plant in Maharashtra and has now decided to collaborate with Amara Raja Advanced Cell Technologies to set up a facility in Telangana. This new facility will […]
Amara Raja Advanced Cell Technologies Pvt. Ltd (ARACT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Amara Raja Energy & Mobility Ltd (ARE&M), one of India’s leading battery manufacturers, has signed a technical licensing agreement with GIB EnergyX Slovakia s.r.o., a subsidiary of Gotion High-Tech Co Ltd. As part of the agreement GIB EnergyX will license Gotion’s world […]
An arm of Amara Raja Group, Amara Raja Infra Private Limited (ARIPL), has won a 100 MW solar power project in Bangladesh. The value of the project is pegged at $130 million. As per the contract, the firm will look into the Engineering, Design, Supply, Installation, and Commissioning of the project, which is to be […]
Enel has entered into a financing agreement with a pan-European commercial banking group UniCredit to pave the way for the finance of the expansion of a solar panel factory in Catania, Sicily, Italy. Investment, worth €560 million (US$600 million), will aid the development of the Italian PV Gigafactory (Tango). This is an industrial-scale manufacturing plant […]
Ola Electric has announced last Monday that it is set to launch its first electric car by 2024. The company, which had trouble with deliveries of its electric scooters after making its exact one-year debut into the market, has set an ambitious goal of selling 10 lakh electric cars by 2026–2027. Ola founder and CEO […]
Bengaluru based Ola Electric has invested an undisclosed amount in Israeli start up StoreDot, a battery technology company that promises “extreme-fast charging” batteries for electric vehicles (EV). Ola electric called the investment strategic in nature, without disclosing the amount invested. StoreDot, in its last funding round of $60 million, had reportedly been valued at $1.5 […]
Solar sector company Carbon has declared that it plans to build a 5-GW solar panel factory in France by 2025. The industrial start-up has also said that it hopes to triple production capacity to 15 GW by the end of this decade. As per the company, the Gigafactory project is expected to create more than […]
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