Batting for the battery

Prabhjot Kaur, CEO, Centre for Battery Engineering and Electric Vehicles, (C-BEEV), believes that times like these call for innovations, and says that all efforts must be directed towards fighting this pandemic to save society in order to ensure a clean and safe environment for future generations. Besides delving deep into batteries, she also discusses EVs and various aspects of building a standardised EV ecosystem. Read on… TOS: Will this pandemic slow down the transition process to EVs in the country? What are the learning’s so far from this crisis? PK: No transition is easy; however, it is people’s mindset. Usefulness of a product and the performance that it will exhibit, in due course of time, can scale or fail a product. ICE vehicles have been here on earth for almost a century now. Therefore, the transition from ICE to EVs is a huge thing. I think the impact shall be [felt]everywhere, and on everyone.  Many sectors shall see worse impact as compared to EVs as almost all auto companies have already made a shift towards EVs globally, and had started production. India or global, the trend is same; [from] small to big, organisations, have already announced their shift. We would have to watch whether