List of Electric Vehicle Companies available in India

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List of Electric Vehicle Companies available in India

Electric Vehicle Companies in India:

India is gearing up to promote electric vehicles in the market & has issued ev Policy which provides complete strategy /road map to achieve the target of converting fuel-based vehicle into electric vehicle.

In this regard, many companies are there which aggressively working in this direction & manufacturing electric vehicles in all segments like Two-wheelers, Three-wheelers, Four-Wheelers & Buses.

A list of electric vehicle (cars/4-wheeler) manufacturing companies in India, their products along with approximate cost is given below in INR –

  • Tata Motors

Tata Nexon EV (Approx Rs 15.26 Lacs)

Tata Tigor EV (Approx Rs 12.61 Lacs)

Tata Tiago EV (Approx Rs 8.49 Lacs)

  • Mahindra

Mahindra e2oPlus (Approx. Rs 7.57 Lacs)

Mahindra e-Verito (Approx. Rs 10.11 Lacs)

  • Jaguar

Jaguar I – Place (Approx. Rs 1.14 – 1.5 Cr)

  • Hyundai

Hyundai Kona Electric (Approx. Rs 25.21)

  • MG

MG ZS EV (Approx. 22.28 Lacs)

  • Audi

Audi e-tron GT (Approx. Rs 1.8 Cr)

Audi RS e-tron GT (Approx. Rs 2.05 Cr)

Audi e-tron (Approx Rs 1.0 Cr)

  • BMW

BMW iX (Approx. Rs 1.2 Cr)

  • Porche

Porche Taycan (Approx. Rs 1.55 Cr)

  • Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz EQC (Approx. 1.05 Cr)

  • Nissan

Nissan Leaf EV (Approx. Rs 30 Lacs)

  • Tesla

Tesla Model 3 (Approx Rs 70-90 Lacs) 

  • Mini Cooper

Mini Cooper SE (Approx. Rs 48 Lacs)

  • BYD E6

BYD E6 (Approx. Rs 29 Lacs)

  • Strom Motors

Strom Motors R3 (Approx. Rs 4.5 Lacs)

 

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Electric Taxi / Electric Cab Service in India

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Electric Taxi / Electric Cab Service in India

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Electric vehicles are not only good for environment as they don’t produce Green House Gases (carbon particles) but are generating lot of business opportunities in automobile market.

These business opportunities include manufacturing of electric vehicles, importing/trading of electric vehicles, manufacturing of charging stations, setting up of Public charging stations, manufacturing of Lithium-ion batteries, charging of Lithium -ion batteries etc.

Apart from above opportunities, one more area is there which is helping EV drive in India & that is – usage of electric vehicles as a taxi or cab service. Details of some companies are given below which are aggressively working in this direction specially in metro cities. These companies provide electric vehicles for taxi or cab purpose.

  • Blu-Smart

Contact details – hello@blu-smart.com, 8287000500

Blu-Smart is an Indian company which has office in Gurugram. It is founded by Puneet Singh Jaggi, Anmol Singh Jaggi & Punit Kumar Goyal. At present they operate in Gurugram, South & west Delhi area only with around 685 e -vehicles (according to a leading newspaper). Their operation is just like OLA /Uber where a user can book its ride through an APP. Just we need to download APP from Play store which suitable for Android & Apple mobile phones.

These cabs are booked in a given time slots by the company due to limited numbers of e-vehicles & their charging time also. They have their own charging stations in Gurugram & Delhi.

  • Lithium –

Contact details – info@project-lithium.com, https://project-lithium.com

Address: 158, 1st Floor, Seetharampalya Village, Mahadevpuram, Banglore, 560048

Phone- 080-48519866

Lithium Technologies is an Indian company based out of Bengaluru. It is founded by Sanjay Krishnan. At present they have around 1100 e vehicles which are running on roads in 9 cities of India starting from Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Delhi, Noida, Gurugram & Jaipur. Lithium technology run their cab service mainly for pick-up drop for corporate employees because of fixed time of movement of employees from office to residence & vice versa. This is due to range limitation of vehicles & lack of charging infrastructure.

Lithium has their own set of charging stations at various locations to run cab business.

  • Evera Cabs & Charging Stations by Prakriti e-mobility Private Limited –

Address – 1226, 12th Floor, DLF Tower B, Jasola, New Delhi, Delhi-110025

Ph: 011- 49540005/06

Email: info@epratriti.com

Prakriti e-mobality provides Evera Cab which is an Indian company, founded by Mr Namish, Mr Vikas & Mr Rajiv . This e-cab/e-taxi service available in Delhi, Gurugram & Noida. It is an App based e-cab/taxi service. User can book its ride through the App. They provide services

  • For individual ride &
  • Corporates for pick-up & drop of employees. They have approx. more than 500 e-vehicles which commute in Delhi-NCR. They have their own charging stations to run the e-taxi service.

  • Eee-taxi by A to Z Universal Solutions Pvt Ltd.

Address: Plot Dhani Ram Piayo, Main Palam Vihar Road, Old Delhi Gurgaon Rd, Gurugram, Haryana 122001

Head Office – 6th Floor, Unit No- 601-602, Vipul Square, Shushant Lok-1, Gurugram-Haryana

This is Indian company & headed by Mr Nishant Saini, Vipul Nanda & Shivkanth Khajuria. They provide E-taxi service in Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Hyderabad & Bengaluru for various purposes like –

  • Daily commute which can be booked through an App,
  • Business Travel which includes point to point unlimited daily travel,
  • After hours travel which includes weekdays, weekends, holidays or late night.

At present they have more than 150 e-vehicles in their service.

  • Cab – Eez Infra Tech Pvt Ltd.

Address: Ground Floor, 29 Kala Nagar, Bandra East, Mumbai- 400051

contact@cabecars.com, 7208878771

This company is Mumbai based & founded by Mr Kuldip Ghosh, Mr Indraneel Chakravarty & Mr Nitin Sharma. AT present they provide E-taxi service in Mumbai only & provide  following services –

  • City commute – in which office, school, college, pub, movie, salon etc are covered with 24X7 services.
  • Intercity Travel – If user is planning to travel from Mumbai to other city.
  • In-city rentals – business meetings, shopping, city ride etc are covered with flat rate.

 

  • Envi

Address: Bellandur, Outer Ring Road, 216, Sobha Hibiscus Bengaluru east, Karnataka 560103 N.

It’s an App based E taxi service, based out of Bengaluru & started e-taxi services in 2020. At present they provide e-taxi service in Bengaluru only.  Envi E-taxi service has been started by Malbork which is an innovative & clean technology company.

 

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Why does Lithium-ion battery catch fire?

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Why does Lithium-ion battery catch fire?

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With recent incidents of fire in EV Scooters (two-wheelers) in India, people are worried about the safety of electric vehicles. These incidents happed in these brands of two- wheelers – OLA, Okinawa & Pure EV.

As we know that all electric vehicles get power through Lithium-ion batteries. Lithium ion batters are used these days in many electronic devices like laptops, mobile phones, smart watches etc as well as electric vehicles. The main reason of using these batteries is the higher storage capacity of power per Kg as compared to other batteries so that these devices could run for longer duration in single charge. Generally, the present energy storage capacity of Li-ion batteries is 150 watts-hour per Kg as compared to 25 watts-Hour per Kg for Lead Acid battery.

Design of Lithium-Ion Battery–

The design of battery is slightly different, it consists of an anode, a cathode, separator & electrolyte. The Anode, Cathode & Separator are assembled in a metal case/container where they are submerged in an electrolyte. In this configuration Anode (Lithium-cobalt-oxide) acts as a positive electrode while cathode (carbon) acts as a negative electrode. These two electrodes are separated by a thin sheet of separator which is made up of micro-perforated plastic. Generally, ether is used as an electrolyte.

Working of Lithium-ion Battery –

Working of Lithium-ion battery is different from normal lead acid batteries. In Lithium-ion batteries, ions are transferred between anode & cathode during charging & discharging of batteries while chemical reaction is required in conventional batteries.

During charging of batteries – lithium-ions are transferred from anode (positive electrode) to cathode (negative electrode) & during discharging – Li-ion moves back to anode from cathode & thus complete the cycle of battery. Per cell of Li-ion battery produces 3.5V which higher than any other type of batteries.

BMS of Lithium-ion Batteries –

Because of its usage for commercial purpose, Battery Management System (BMS) is used in all Lithium-ion batteries of electric vehicles for the safety of the batteries. The main function of BMS is to manage the temperature of battery. It also manages current & voltage of the battery. A good health of Li-ion battery depends on BMS which must ensure following things –

  • Protection of battery cell from overcharged / over-discharged,
  • Manage heat levels of the cells,
  • Checks loose connection & short circuits if any,
  • Communicate with vehicle onboard software

Precautions required to avoid fire risk while using Li-ion batteries –

Following points are important to avoid fire in Lithium-ion batteries –

  • Separator plays a very important role in the safety of the battery. As we know that anode & cathode are two different charged electrodes & they should not come in contact with each other. Whenever they will come in contact with each other short circuit will occur which may lead to fire. That is why the designing of separator should be done very carefully. If too much thin separator is designed, then chances of contact of both electrodes will be very high.
  • Avoid external damage to the battery
  • Temperature management of Li-ion battery is very important. Therefore, we need to ensure that BMS software should remain in healthy condition so that temperature management of the battery is done continuously.
  • Thermal Runaway Condition should be avoided because it a condition in which heat is transferred to another cell when one cell fails & creates a chain reaction that results in fire in the battery. Therefore, there should not be any compromised in battery management system during manufacturing.