{"id":289257,"date":"2019-08-29T05:26:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T05:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=289257"},"modified":"2019-08-29T05:26:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T05:26:24","slug":"iocl-to-tie-up-with-a-global-start-up-to-produce-ev-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iocl-to-tie-up-with-a-global-start-up-to-produce-ev-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"IOCL to tie up with a global start-up to produce EV batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI : State-run oil refiner and marketer Indian Oil Corporation Ltd is foraying into energy storage and batteries for running electric vehicles (EVs) in partnership with an overseas start-up, using a non-lithium ion raw material available locally, Chairman Sanjiv Singh said today in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lithium-ion battery we see today is not the only answer. We don\u2019t lithium in India so, if you are looking at EVs in a big way, we have to look for something which is indigenously available. We have already tied-up with one company and we are working on a solution which can be manufactured 100% indigenously,&#8221; Singh told media persons post the company&#8217;s annual general meeting in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>IOCL said it has a strategic intent to scale up its presence in the e-mobility as well as equipping customer touch-points with turbo-charging and battery-swapping facilities for EVs and plug-in hybrids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI : State-run oil refiner and marketer Indian Oil Corporation Ltd is foraying into energy storage and batteries for running electric vehicles (EVs) in partnership with an overseas start-up, using a non-lithium ion raw material available locally, Chairman Sanjiv Singh said today in Mumbai. \u201cThe lithium-ion battery we see today is not the only answer. We don\u2019t lithium in India so, if you are looking at EVs in a big way, we have to look for something which is indigenously available. We have already tied-up with one company and we are working on a solution which can be manufactured 100% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289257","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}