Practical, jargon-free guides to lithium-ion batteries in Indian conditions — what to check before you buy, how to make a pack last, how finance works, and what is happening in the industry.
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The Commission proposed replacing the 100 per cent CO₂ cut with 90 per cent plus clean steel or renewable fuels. Ten points sounds marginal; it converts a deadline into a quota — and quotas are things you plan around rather than reallocate capital for.
Northvolt reached about 1 GWh of a planned 16 and went bankrupt, ACC halted two gigafactories, and the continent’s largest cell plant will be CATL’s in Hungary. Why cell manufacturing defeated well-funded newcomers — and what India should take from it.
The EU imposed duties taking the burden to around 45 per cent, and Chinese brands took a record share of Europe’s battery-electric market anyway. Four routes around the wall, and why the real contest is the price of a small electric car.
The e-rickshaw got no meaningful subsidy, no charging programme and no manufacturing incentive. It got an exemption from Section 66(1) of the Motor Vehicles Act — and that landed very differently in states where auto permits are scarce and valuable.
India sold a record 830,000 electric three-wheelers in FY2026, led by Mahindra, Bajaj and TVS — organised firms selling into the South and West. The dividing line is the vehicle category, not the powertrain, and the two are now converging.
Five states hold roughly four out of every five e-rickshaws in India. The reasons are terrain, trip length, the vehicle it replaced, the permit rule and the credit market — not enthusiasm for electric vehicles, which the South has more of.
Freight rates repriced on lanes nowhere near the Gulf, and contract rates followed spot. A look at the three mechanisms behind it, India’s unusually direct exposure, and an honest calculation of how much of it actually lands on a battery pack.
Half your capital buys a transformer and a concrete pad, not a charger. A worked example showing why a site is loss-making at 5 per cent utilisation and pays back in three years at 20 — and what buffer storage does to the demand charge that decides it.
The count went from 5,000 stations to over 29,000 and drivers trust the network less than before. What actually breaks — grid connections, connector standards, twenty separate apps — and why two- and three-wheelers barely notice.
The emissions barely change in November. The air does. A plain explanation of temperature inversion, the stubble burning distraction, why transport is the largest local source, and an honest table of what swapping a combustion vehicle does and does not fix.
From J.P. Morgan funding Edison’s first power station to a driver financing a battery on EMI — 140 years of the same problem, which is who bears the risk of building something that only pays back over decades.
Edison’s first power station could not send electricity further than about a mile. The story of how that limit was broken — through the transformer, the 1891 Frankfurt demonstration, HVDC, and India’s synchronisation into a single grid in 2013.