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Essel To Invest Rs 1,750 Crore For EV Charging Facility In UP

To set up electric vehicle charging stations along with battery swapping facility in Uttar Pradesh, Essel Infraprojects (EIL) is planning to invest a whopping...

Hyundai To Launch Its First EV In 2019

Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) will be launching an electric SUV Kona by 2019 under the CKD format. As the cost in developing an...

Proliferation Of Efficient Battery Tech To Redefine Power Landscape

India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) believes that the proliferation of energy-efficient battery technologies is likely to bring about a paradigm shift in the business...

Production Of Li-Ion Battery Launched In Tamil Nadu

Production of indigenously developed lithium-ion battery including electric vehicles, was launched in Chennai yesterday. According to a report by TNN Tamil Nadu governor Banwarilal Purohit inaugurated...

GST Rate On Li-Ion Battery Should Be Same As EV : SMEV

Reduction of GST rate on lithium-ion batteries to 18 per cent is a welcome step, though it is still higher when compared to factory-fitted...

Tata Power Launches EV Charging Stations In Hyderabad

Tata Power announced setting-up of three fast charging Electric Vehicle (EV) stations at the Hyderabad campus of leading IT firm Cognizant.  After recently launching Mumbai’s...

137 Companies Eye Isro’s EV Battery Technology

To speed up the process of technology transfer for its electric vehicle batteries, Indian Space Research Organisation’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram...

SUN Mobility Plans Up To 100 Battery Swapping Stations By FY19 End

In a boost to India’s electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure network, Chetan Maini-led start-up SUN Mobility plans to set up the first batch of its...

SUN Mobility And Maker Of Reva Joins Hands With Microsoft For EV Infrastructure

Chetan Maini, the maker of Reva and Uday Khemka's SUN Mobility have come together with technology giant Microsoft to create an effective smart network...

Fuel Taxes May Go Higher to Encourage the Sale of EV in India

As per a proposal by the Finance Ministry, it has been suggested to impose higher taxes on petrol and diesel cars to encourage the...

Niti Aayog To Set EV Target For States

Niti Aayog may not yet be ready with their policy recommendations for electric vehicles but they are considering other ways through which they can...

Niti Aayog Mulls To Set EV Target For State Public Transporters

The government is mulling over giving target to state public transporters to deploy certain percentage of electric vehicles in their new orders, while it will...

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ASMl Holdings

ASML and TSMC Partner to Advance Next-Generation Semiconductor Mask Tech

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The chipmaking giants target a shift to larger 12-inch photomasks to boost manufacturing productivity and lower advanced node costs.  ASML and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...

Ultraviolette to Build Major EV Factory in Tamil Nadu

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The Indian electric vehicle manufacturer plans to produce up to 500,000 units annually at its new automated facility in Hosur.  Electric vehicle pioneer Ultraviolette Automotive...
Drone

Karnataka to Build $5.1m Drone Testing Hub

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The state government targets advanced aerial mobility expansion with a dedicated testing facility in Chikkaballapura.  Karnataka is set to bolster its aerial mobility ecosystem by...
Telecommunications sector

US Backs Africell with $100m Loan to Counter Huawei in Africa

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The Trump administration finances the US-owned telecoms operator to expand trusted mobile network technology across the continent.  The US government is set to provide a...
CXMT

China’s CXMT Takes Top Spot with 82 per cent Profit Margin

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The DRAM manufacturer’s record profitability eclipses Samsung and SK Hynix as conventional memory prices surge.   China’s leading DRAM manufacturer, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), has achieved...

Learn From Leaders

India’s Photonics Puzzle Is Finally Coming Together 

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Can India turn its scattered photonics capabilities into a stronger industry? A new association aims to connect the ecosystem and strengthen the domestic value...
Jin Bains, CEO, Mini-Circuits

Mini-Circuits CEO Jin Bains on Navigating High-Frequency Component SWaP-C Constraints, Emerging Markets, and Career...

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In this exclusive, Jin Bains, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mini-Circuits, explains in a conversation with Dilin Anand of EFY about areas of emerging...

India Needs Not a Hundred, But Thousands of Chip Diversified Companies 

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Can India build a semiconductor ecosystem beyond fabs? Indiesemic believes thousands of diversified chip companies are needed to make that possible. India’s semiconductor push is...
L Venkata Subramaniam, CEO, Qbit Force, Andhra Pradesh

“We Aim To Make Quantum Computing More Visible, Understandable, And Open To Build On”...

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From building India’s first open quantum hardware ecosystem to assembling a working quantum computer in just four months, Qbit Force is redefining how deep...
(L-R) Nikesh Gondchawar, Strategic & Technical Advisor – Robotics Manufacturing; Shrikrushna Kakade, Founder Partner; Nikhil Kakade, Senior Technical Advisor – Robotics & Control Systems, SlightGen Solutions LLP

“A Made-In-India Robotic PCB Soldering System That Automates The Through-Hole Soldering Process!” – Shrikrushna...

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Electronics manufacturing is complex, and automation often comes at a high cost. To bridge this gap and offer a more affordable solution in India,...

Startups

Manivannan Subramaniam, Director R&D, CIYES Systems

“We Want to Build Globally Competitive Deep-Tech Products from India” –  Manivannan Subramaniam, CIYES...

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Can India build globally competitive deep-tech products? Manivannan Subramaniam of CIYES Systems believes it can. In this interview with EFY's Nitisha Dubey, he discusses...

Raptee.HV, Rajalakshmi Engineering College Launch EV Centre of Excellence

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The facility is among the first initiatives under Raptee.HV Academy Raptee.HV has launched a Centre of Excellence for Electric Mobility at Rajalakshmi Engineering College (REC),...

Agnikul Cosmos Opens New Facilities to Advance Reusable Rocket Development

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STIF has been designed and fabricated in-house to test complete reusable rocket stages under flight-like conditions Indian space-tech company Agnikul Cosmos has inaugurated two new...

Zenergize Technologies Raises $4 Million Pre-Series A to Scale SiC Power Electronics

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The fundraise comes after a year of rapid product development and commercialisation Zenergize Technologies, an R&D-driven deep-tech company developing indigenous Silicon Carbide (SiC)-based power electronics,...
Gadhadar Reddy, Co-Founder and CEO, NoPo Nanotechnologies

Nopo Nanotechnologies’ Carbon Nanotubes Turn ‘Not Possible’ To ‘Now Possible’

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Can single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) significantly improve EV batteries? This startup says it has turned what was once considered ‘not possible’ into ‘now possible.’ An...