{"id":647720,"date":"2025-09-25T09:34:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647720"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:08:14","slug":"hindujas-ashok-leyland-kicks-off-china-tie-up-with-battery-making-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hindujas-ashok-leyland-kicks-off-china-tie-up-with-battery-making-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hinduja&#8217;s Ashok Leyland kicks off China tie-up with battery-making goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashok Leyland Ltd., flagship of the conglomerate led by the billionaire Hinduja family, is banking on China\u2019s third-largest battery maker CALB Group Co. to help in its ambition of gradually mastering the technology behind lithium-ion cells.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s second-biggest maker of trucks and buses, which signed a 20-year agreement with CALB earlier this month, will start with importing cells from its Chinese partner and learn the process of assembling them into packs, Ashok Leyland\u2019s Chief Executive Officer Shenu Agarwal said in an interview. The automaker will gradually seek the capability to design and manufacture lithium-ion batteries domestically, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashok Leyland Ltd., flagship of the conglomerate led by the billionaire Hinduja family, is banking on China\u2019s third-largest battery maker CALB Group Co. to help in its ambition of gradually mastering the technology behind lithium-ion cells. India\u2019s second-biggest maker of trucks and buses, which signed a 20-year agreement with CALB earlier this month, will start with importing cells from its Chinese partner and learn the process of assembling them into packs, Ashok Leyland\u2019s Chief Executive Officer Shenu Agarwal said in an interview. The automaker will gradually seek the capability to design and manufacture lithium-ion batteries domestically, he added.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647720","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=647720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}