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A Step In The Right Direction: Venkat Rajaraman Over Latest BIS Standards On EV Batteries | ET Now
The proposed Battery Swapping policy (draft) by the Government of India aims to build a robust ecosystem around the ‘Battery as a service (BaaS)’ model to drive EV adoption. Venkat Rajaraman – CEO at Cygni Energy Private Limited discusses how the Battery Swapping Policy can largely benefit from cutting-edge technology
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“Battery Swapping Policy – Dawn of a new era”
By Venkat Rajaraman, CEO and Founder, Cygni
The most important aspect of this policy is that it puts the battery manufacturers in the front and centre of this entire scheme.
The much-awaited draft policy for the swappable batteries was released by NITI-Aayog a few days back. The policy has a lot of good interventions which are very important from the adoption perspective and at the same time the policy skims over some of the critical details, and a few details are still left open.
Read More at: Financial Express
It is a well-known fact that India doesn’t have much of minerals needed for battery cell manufacturing, be it Lithium, Cobalt or Nickel. So, India needs to rely on battery recycling and needs a large number of zero effluent recycling plants.