{"id":285278,"date":"2019-07-31T05:35:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T05:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=285278"},"modified":"2019-07-31T05:35:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T05:35:44","slug":"cecri-to-make-ev-batteries-invest-%e2%82%b9100-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cecri-to-make-ev-batteries-invest-%e2%82%b9100-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"CECRI to make EV batteries; invest \u20b9100-cr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil Nadu-based Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), a research institute under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, has decided to set up a factory to produce batteries for electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>It plans to invest \u20b9100 crore to set up the unit at its campus in Taramani, Chennai.<\/p>\n<p>This is a marked departure for the research body that has developed technologies, on its own or as a sponsored initiative, and licensed out the know-how.<\/p>\n<p>Now, nudged by V K Saraswat, Member, NITI Aayog, CECRI has decided to manufacture a product on its own. The funds for the plant, however, will come from CSIR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil Nadu-based Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), a research institute under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, has decided to set up a factory to produce batteries for electric vehicles. It plans to invest \u20b9100 crore to set up the unit at its campus in Taramani, Chennai. This is a marked departure for the research body that has developed technologies, on its own or as a sponsored initiative, and licensed out the know-how. Now, nudged by V K Saraswat, Member, NITI Aayog, CECRI has decided to manufacture a product on its own. The funds for the plant, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285278","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}