{"id":336872,"date":"2020-02-11T12:18:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T06:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=336872"},"modified":"2020-02-11T12:18:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T06:48:19","slug":"lithium-scarcity-hampers-indias-ev-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lithium-scarcity-hampers-indias-ev-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithium scarcity hampers India&#8217;s EV growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: India\u2019s journey of becoming a country that furthers the production and use of electric vehicles (EV) has several hurdles. The foremost being the lack of availability of lithium, which constitutes the most significant component of an EV, namely the rechargeable battery. As of now, India\u2019s EV production completely relies on imports from China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are very few battery manufacturing units in India. The country is taking efforts to ensure the industry\u2019s growth, to indegenise battery production. The primary focus is on producing lithium-ion batteries,\u201d said  Dr VK Saraswat, a NITI Aayog member, while speaking at IIT-H during the launch of \u2018EPluto 7G\u2019 on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: India\u2019s journey of becoming a country that furthers the production and use of electric vehicles (EV) has several hurdles. The foremost being the lack of availability of lithium, which constitutes the most significant component of an EV, namely the rechargeable battery. As of now, India\u2019s EV production completely relies on imports from China. \u201cThere are very few battery manufacturing units in India. The country is taking efforts to ensure the industry\u2019s growth, to indegenise battery production. The primary focus is on producing lithium-ion batteries,\u201d said Dr VK Saraswat, a NITI Aayog member, while speaking at IIT-H during the launch [&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":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336872","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=336872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}