{"id":289413,"date":"2019-08-29T07:06:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T07:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=289413"},"modified":"2019-08-29T07:06:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T07:06:25","slug":"ioc-looks-to-replace-li-ion-battery-in-electric-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ioc-looks-to-replace-li-ion-battery-in-electric-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC looks to replace li-ion battery in electric vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), which has drawn up over Rs 2 lakh crore capex over the next seven years for refinery expansion, modernisation and petrochemical capacity, is also working at an alternative to lithium-ion batteries for Electric Vehicles, chairman Sanjiv Singh said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe battery what we see today, probably is not the only answer. We don\u2019t have a single grain of lithium in India. So, if we are looking at EVs in a very big way, we have to look at something that is indigenously available,\u201d Singh said without elaborating on the venture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), which has drawn up over Rs 2 lakh crore capex over the next seven years for refinery expansion, modernisation and petrochemical capacity, is also working at an alternative to lithium-ion batteries for Electric Vehicles, chairman Sanjiv Singh said on Wednesday. \u201cThe battery what we see today, probably is not the only answer. We don\u2019t have a single grain of lithium in India. So, if we are looking at EVs in a very big way, we have to look at something that is indigenously available,\u201d Singh said without elaborating on the venture.<\/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":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289413","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=289413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}