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Other key dignitaries included
Rashmi Urdhwareshe, President
SAI, Co-Chair - Steering Commit-
tee and Former Director, ARAI;
Mahesh Babu, Patron - SIIMC
2022 and CEO, Switch Mobili-
ty; Damodaran Subramanian,
Member - Steering Commit-
tee, Former MD, Safran Engi-
neering; and Munirathinam
Dhananjayan, Chair - Organiz-
ing Committee Founder & MD,
Focus Engineering.

EV adoption, the need of
the hour
India’s transportation sector
accounts for 13 percent of total Source: MWM
CO emissions, and the demand
2
is predicted to increase by 2.7 “We are working with more than 15 OEMs in India including Bajaj and
times over the next 30 years, others are underway and essentially variable to deploy on their scooters
and vehicles or two wheelers and that’s basically the synchronization
boosting emissions. “While into the cloud. So we manage the cloud, the cyber security layer, and the The confer-
ence fea-
transportation has been critical vehicle software integration, making it basically idiot-proof for the OEM.” tured over
to India’s historical progress, it (First from left): Shivalik Prasad, Vice President 180 pre-
has been accompanied by var- Strategic Alliances and Sales, Sibros sentations
ious problems, the most signif- and 543
icant of which is air pollution,” as sodium-ion, lithium-carbon, Combining efforts abstracts on
engineering
says NITI Aayog’s Director - solid-state, and flow batteries PV Clean Mobility Technologies innovations
Electric Mobility. “We need to would ultimately begin and Pvt Ltd, a joint venture formed aimed at
decouple our economic growth would be funded by the program by Padmini VNA Mechatron- boosting
from expansion in the motor- as well. He also asserted that the ics and Vitesco Technologies, sustain-
ized transportation sector.” onus is on the industry, and the showcased its key products at able and
multi-modal
Singh also noted that the aver- EV needs to conform to higher the event, including Fuel Deliv- mobility in
age level of travel in India has safety standards as it impacts ery Modules, Air Intake Valves, India and
climbed to 5,000 km per year, a consumer sentiment. Gasoline applications of Canis- around the
threefold increase since 2000. ter Purge Valves, Electric Cool- world.
“Vehicle ownership has also In terms of charging infrastruc- ant Water Pumps, and Coolant
surged fivefold in the last two ture, he sees four major break- Flow Control Valves - Linear/
decades. On the freight side, it throughs: Rotary. “All of these solutions
has resulted in a quadrupling in • Captive Charging Stations, that we are offering to the Indi-
truck ownership between the which will be directly driven an market are already ethanol
years 2000 and 2019, or about by usage. compatible,” said Drone Tewa-
20 years. As a result, the move • Public Charging Stations, tia, Manager, Marketing & Busi-
to EVs (Electric Vehicles) is un- which will be the commercial ness Development, PV Clean
avoidable,” he emphasized. EV charging stations. Mobility Technologies. “The
The National Programme on Ad- • Battery Swapping Stations, best part is that everything is
vanced Chemistry Cell (NPACC) where the battery is provided already being manufactured
and PLI scheme seek to en- as a service, including every- in India. We are now export-
courage companies to establish thing behind the meter, mo- ing water pumps from India to
a Giga-scale of a minimum 5 bility, stationary storage, and Germany for various uses and
GWh battery storage manufac- other storage-related things. starting to sell them to Indian
turing in India over a five-year • E-Bus Depot Charging, OEMs for battery and motor
period. Currently, lithium-ion where charging is done cooling applications.”
batteries dominate, but Singh as a service, subscription Shivalik Prasad, Vice President,
disclosed that the development models, along with bayside Strategic Alliances and Sales,
of alternative chemistries such amenity services. Sibros, a participant at

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