EVs Buying Costs To Be At Par With Petrol Vehicles In A Year, Says Nitin Gadkari Updated On Mon, Jun 20th, 2022 by Saurenergy The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari has expressed the hope in an event that the prices of all electric vehicles (EVs) are going to be equal to the cost of petrol vehicles in India in the coming one year. The premise behind the comment from the Union Minister is that, as […] Read more
Volvo Invests $4.9 million In Connected Energy For Second Life Battery Business Updated On Mon, Jun 20th, 2022 by Saurenergy Volvo Energy is investing about 50 million Swedish kronor (SEK) or $4.9 million for 10 percent in the UK-based second-life battery energy storage specialist Connected Energy. Joachim Rosenberg, President, Volvo Energy, said, “There is a great deal of untapped potential in the second-life use of batteries. This forward-leaning investment aims to facilitate the scaling-up of […] Read more
MIAL Launches First Of Its Kind Vertical Axis Wind & Solar System Updated On Wed, Jun 15th, 2022 by Saurenergy Mumbai International Airport, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) has become India’s first airport to launch a one-of-its-kind Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) & Solar PV hybrid (Solar Mill) to explore the possibility of utilization of wind energy at the airport. CSMIA has introduced this pilot program in collaboration with WindStream Energy Technologies India Pvt […] Read more
Disruptive Tech Trends Transforming The Shape Of EV Industry Updated On Tue, Jun 14th, 2022 by Saurenergy In 2020, before the pandemic shook up the world, especially the Indian automotive industry, electric vehicles were moving steadily into the spotlight. The total annual sales of different types of electric vehicles such as battery electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles in the year 2019 crossed over the two-million-vehicle mark. But even due to the […] Read more
Tata Motors Bags Biggest EV Fleet Order From BluSmart Updated On Mon, Jun 6th, 2022 by Saurenergy Close on the heels of the $50 million fund raise by BlueSmart, it has placed an order for 10,000 XPRES T EVs with Tata Motors, presently the largest four wheeler EV manufacturer and seller in the country,. This deployment of 10,000 units makes this the biggest ever EV fleet order in India. With deliveries […] Read more
We Should Soon Witness Large Solar+Storage Offgrid Setups In India. Updated On Fri, Jun 3rd, 2022 by Saurenergy The electric mobility space has been a hotbed for startups, who saw the opportunity in the green transition. It helped that the transition is calling for a virtual reinvention of multiple aspects of the way mobility was done, right from vehicles, to vehicle batteries, to charging and more. One such startup in the news has […] Read more
Vedanta Aluminium Commissions India’s Largest Li-Ion Forklifts Fleet Updated On Fri, Jun 3rd, 2022 by Saurenergy India’s largest aluminum producer and private sector miner, Vedanta Aluminium has announced commissioning India’s largest electric fleet of 27 forklifts. This electric fleet is powered by lithium-ion batteries. This is the first step in Vedanta Aluminium’s attempts to decarbonize its industrial vehicle fleet, and it was done in collaboration with GEAR (Gemini Equipment and Rentals […] Read more
Zinc–air Battery Technology By IIT Madras Hopes to Challenge Lithium-Ion ones Updated On Fri, Jun 3rd, 2022 by Saurenergy Researchers at IIT Madras are in the process of developing a new kind of zinc – air battery technology for electric vehicles that can prove to be a strong alternative to lithium-ion ones. A key feature of the zinc – air battery is that it could be charged mechanically. However, actual details of the technology […] Read more
Latin America Preaches RE, Yet Practises Fossil Fuels Updated On Thu, Jun 2nd, 2022 by Saurenergy Perpetually in two minds, although the Latin American Governments have appeared to be committing to renewable targets, yet their actions are just the opposite. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) that it will need US$1 trillion per year between now and 2050 to finance energy transition in Latin America, compared to the $150 billion […] Read more
