Blog: Elon : Hesitation Can Hurt !

Monday, 3 July 2017

Elon : Hesitation Can Hurt !

For a few months now , I have been tweeting to Elon Musk , to hurry up with his plans for manufacture of Tesla Electric Cars in India

May be he was evaluating his entry strategy in the context of “ China vs India “

Now comes following news ( Bloomberg / 28 June 2017 ) :

As Elon Musk races to finish building the world’s biggest battery factory in the Nevada desert, China is poised to leave him in the dust.

Chinese companies have plans for additional factories with the capacity to pump out more than 120 gigawatt-hours a year by 2021, according to a report published this week by Bloomberg Intelligence.

That’s enough to supply batteries for around 1.5 million Tesla Model S vehicles or 13.7 million Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrids per year, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

By comparison, when completed in 2018, Tesla Inc.’s Gigafactory will crank out up to 35 gigawatt-hours of battery cells annually.

But then India is not “ hesitating “ either !

Following is the description of following Youtube video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLYzqV-4-GReUxRT75zmAGNi-EN_-43S6C&v=gE_Y1WkBkx8&app=desktop

Indian Space Research Organisation's Indian Space Research Organisation had developed Lithium Ion battery technology for space application. Now government of India is planning to give this technology to interested Indian companies so that large volume of battery production would significantly reduce the cost !

The video says :

The Indian Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has asked ISRO to share the battery technology to all interested , Public and Private Companies . The rationale being mass production can reduce the cost significantly

Mahindra Renault , Hyundai , Nissan, Tata Motors , High Energy Batteries, BHEL and Indian Oil have shown interest in producing the indigenous Li-ion batteries

BHEL and ISRO could possibly sign deals in this regard soon

But Indian Government aims to have multiple companies producing the batteries to drive down the

Cost

This is what I repeatedly urged the NDA government through my following blogs ( sent as emails ) :

· ABreakthrough : In Technology and Mind-set

{ https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-breakthrough-in-technology-and-in.html }

· From Elon to Ion

{ https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2017/05/from-elon-to-ion.html }

· SolarPanels charging Li-ion Batteries of Electric Cars ?

{https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2017/05/solar-panels-charging-li-ion-batteries.html }

· Enable Elon to Catalyse

{ https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2017/06/enable-elon-to-catalyse.html }