{"id":203459,"date":"2018-12-21T11:48:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T11:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=203459"},"modified":"2018-12-22T05:14:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T05:14:33","slug":"bhel-in-talks-to-form-jv-with-us-firm-for-manufacturing-lithium-ion-batteries-in-india-geete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bhel-in-talks-to-form-jv-with-us-firm-for-manufacturing-lithium-ion-batteries-in-india-geete\/","title":{"rendered":"BHEL in talks to form JV with US-firm for manufacturing lithium-ion batteries in India: Geete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is making efforts to manufacture lithium-ion batteries in India in the next one year, and talks are on between state-run BHEL and a US firm to form a joint venture in this regard, Union Minister Anant Geete said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now we are importing 100 per cent lithium-ion batteries, but efforts are on towards manufacturing them in India within the next one year,&#8221; Geete said, adding that talks are on between BHEL and an American firm to form a joint venture for domestic manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries. <\/p>\n<p>BHEL comes under the administrative control of ministries of heavy industries.<\/p>\n<p>The minister also unveiled electric auto, &#8216;KYTO&#8217;, manufactured by ETO Motors in joint venture with Hong Kong-based Kyto Green Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Grayson Richards, managing director of Kyto Green Technologies, said the company plans to invest USD 10 million in India over the next two years and will make the country a hub for exporting to other nations.<\/p>\n<p>Lithium-ion batteries, a key component used in electric vehicles, are mostly imported from China at present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is making efforts to manufacture lithium-ion batteries in India in the next one year, and talks are on between state-run BHEL and a US firm to form a joint venture in this regard, Union Minister Anant Geete said Friday. &#8220;Right now we are importing 100 per cent lithium-ion batteries, but efforts are on towards manufacturing them in India within the next one year,&#8221; Geete said, adding that talks are on between BHEL and an American firm to form a joint venture for domestic manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries. BHEL comes under the administrative control of ministries of heavy industries. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}