ACC battery market demand in India to rise to 220 GWh by 2030, says CII report
Ashok Leyland and JCB. Sondhi added, "It is imperative for India to not only strengthen the national battery raw materials and manufacturing set-up but also to become a globally trusted supplier of high-quality, innovative battery materials to counter the Chinese supremacy in the domain." The CII report recommended development of domestic mines as several raw minerals such as cobalt, nickel, and copper have a negligible reserve, production, and refining capacity in the country.
The CII report also called for lowering the custom duty of critical minerals used in battery manufacturing and incentivising setting up of mineral processing plants to extract required minerals. The CII report further said India needs a battery chemical processing industry at par with several other stages of battery manufacturing and various measures in form of incentives, exemptions from various taxes etc.
which can be done by way of incentives from the government, additional funding for R&D, collaboration with countries with advanced technology for technological collaboration and simplification of the regulations related to chemical industry- obtaining licenses, environmental clearances, and other approvals etc. The government last month announced the re-bidding of production-linked incentives for 20 GWh Advanced Chemistry Cell manufacturing -- India's ₹18,100-crore programme to boost local battery cell production.
The advanced chemistry cell (ACCs) are the new generation of advanced storage technologies that can store electric energy either as electrochemical or as chemical energy and convert it back to electric energy as and when required. These have major applications in electric vehicles, maintaining grid stability, solar rooftop, consumer
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