“These batteries are completely designed, engineered, and Made in India. The chief battery engineer of Pravaig is Anirudh Vijaykumar, who previously worked as senior product engineer for Applied Materials where he made semiconductor factory lines, and senior battery engineer at Tesla in their nascency within a very small team of 12 making the batteries for Model S, X, 3 and their Energy Storage Systems,” he said.
Indian automobile space is now flooded with two, three and four-wheeler EVs but the near zero emitting vehicles have not yet picked up in a big way mostly due to battery issues.
Also, who’s who of corporate India – from billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani to state-owned firms – have announced renewable energy projects as well as battery solutions. And Pravaig’s battery solution opens new possibilities for them.
One of the largest European renewables companies, Eren Groupe is promoted by Paris Mouratoglou, the pioneer of solar power who kickstarted the solar power industry with first commercial solar in 1974.
As Independent Power Producers, the group has more than 2.2 GW of solar power in India with their JV partners.
More importantly, they have various technologies for India, unified under the banner Ekniti India Pvt Ltd.
In a letter to Union Power Minister R K Singh, Mouratoglou said the batteries made by Pravaig “are at par if not better with the best of the global technologies.”
“Ekniti will continue to work with Pravaig and government bodies to bring India’s power infrastructure,” he added. Pravaig is the only company in India making large scale energy storage systems. The annual production capacity is 2 GWh from their Bengaluru facility.
They also provide battery solutions to defense and automotive with an annual production capacity of 500 MWh for those critical applications.
Started in 2011, Pravaig is a deep tech company which is building world-class products from ground up and is targeting the global opportunity of making 2 billion EVs in the next 2 decades, Bagri added.
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