BATTERYMATE

MG Motor’s parent company, SAIC Motor Corporation Limited, is only the second OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) that has its own battery plant for Electric Vehicles (EVs), a joint venture with CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology), the world’s largest EV battery manufacturer. The batteries are produced on the outskirts of Shanghai, China, where 36 Giga Hour battery plant is being built, and which once completed, will be the biggest EV battery plant in the world.  “Battery is a word used rather loosely,” says Gaurav Gupta, Chief Commercial Officer, MG Motor India Pvt. Ltd who says “A battery is more of a combined box of modules that has cells in it." "Their batteries," he says, "are tested, as per European standards, put through eight testing elements, including water and dust resistance tests, so, in terms of overall quality, and testing of the battery itself, being Europe certified, they are fairly confident." While the batteries are currently being imported into the country because of limited demand, over a period of time, MG Motor India, believes that they will have to start taking big steps that will focus on the repair technology of the battery. “The life of an electric vehicle battery is equal to the life of a car,” says