Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India launched the report identifying future cutting-edge technological requirements into 4-important areas: Energy Storage Cells, EV Aggregates, Materials and Recycling, and, Charging and Refueling.
Current Scenario in India
- India’s growing electric vehicle sector heavily depends on lithium imports, sourced from other countries.
- Unavailability of a hardware manufacturing base is pushing Original Equipment Manufacturers and suppliers for imports.
- ~90% of used batteries are either processed by unorganized industry or end up in landfills and garbage dumps.
- Currently, there are 2000 charging stations exist in India. (NITI Aayog Report, 2021)
Proposed R&D Roadmap
- Energy Storage Cell: Accelerate the process of finding more Lithium reserves, implement globally available, established extraction technologies for lithium, utilize existing supply-chain strategies in Li-battery/ cell production, etc.
- EV Aggregates: Emphasis on Hybrid Energy Storage Systems (HESS), combining different energy storage technologies such as batteries and supercapacitors, etc.
- Material and Recycling: Economic analysis of recycling value-chain, implement methods for monitoring and reporting the environmental impact, etc.
- Charging and Refueling: Proper road infrastructure for installation of a transmitting pad underneath the road, design scalable systems for dynamic wireless charging technology, design and development of adaptive charging techniques for different power ranges of EVs, battery chemistries, etc.
