The road transport ministry has proposed a Battery Pack Aadhaar Number (BPAN) system to assign a unique 21-character identification code to electric vehicle batteries. The initiative prioritises EV batteries, which account for nearly 90 per cent of India’s lithium-ion demand.
Hyderabad: In a bid to decrease the dependence on fossil fuels to recharge the batteries, Amar Kumar, a graduate at the TN Narayanan’s lab in the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Hyderabad and his colleagues have assembled a compact lithium-ion battery with photosensitive materials that can be directly recharged with solar energy. According to […]
