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Indian Oil Corporation Signs Joint Venture Agreement With Israel's Phinergy To Produce Metal-Air Batteries

By LawStreet News Network      05 February, 2020 04:02 PM      0 Comments
Indian Oil Corporation Joint Venture Agreement

On February 4, 2020 the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) made a deal with Israeli start-up Phinergy for making lithium-ion and aluminium-zinc air batteries for electric vehicles. India has bought a minority stake in Israels Phinergy and signed a Joint Venture Agreement to produce an alternative to mainstream lithium technology batteries.

Thismove comes at a time when the government of India is moving towards the electric vehicle consumption so that it can cut short the pollution and lower the countrys fuel import bill, said IOC Chairman Sanjay Gandhi.

We are confident that this Al-Air battery technology would complement lithium-ion batteries to provide a hybrid solution for the large-scale adoption of electric vehicles, said the chairman on February 4, 2020. However, the statement did not specify the absolute amount IOC paid for getting a stake in the Israeli company and did not even disclose the percentage of the stake bought.

India is the World's third largest oil importer and consumer. Moreover it ships around 80% of the oil from overseas and indulges in practices to reduce that dependency.

IOC Chairman said that they are working to install natural gas dispensers for various commercial vehicles, enabling them to run on cheap super cooled gas.

IOC has in the previous year imported 3 million metric tonnes crude oil from the United States (U.S.) valuing over $1.5 billion. The fuel retailer said this was one of the largest contracts signed by any Indian Public Sector Undertaking (PSU).

As per the report of 2019 fiscal year Indias crude oil imports have increased by over 72% and have diversified its purchasers from traditional West Asia.

This shows how India needs to walk towards the electric vehicle approach so that the energy dependency may somehow reduce. The new proposals states that by 2023 only electric 3 wheelers will be operating in the country and electric 2 wheelers by 2025.

In the same field, other work has been initiated as charging stations are being built at Government offices, malls and within neighborhoods. Bharat Heavy Electricals has planned to build its charging stations soon.

Hyundai has launched its Kona Cars electric model, Nissan is working for the same.  Mahindra and Mahindra and Tata Motors have been selling their electric cars. With a new approach Ola taxi has been hiring services instead of charging models and is planning to swap discharged with fully charged batteries. 

With this view in mind the deal of IOC with Phinergy, which was founded in 2008 and develops assortment of zero-emissions batteries incorporating aluminum-air and zinc-air batteries to support electric cars, is a positive step.

Both companies are in discussions with leading auto manufactures for adoption of this technology in 3Ws, cars & buses and they have also shown interest in evaluation and subsequent adoption of this technology, the statement reads.

This approach of adopting alternative energy options paves the way for sustainable growth and will ensure that certain climate protocols which India is a part of are in strict abidance and will lead us to a greener future.

 

Author: Aarya Mishra



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