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EV's and Indian Manufacturing: Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwaala | Visit to IIT Madras

Plug In India

After he joined the board of M & M a few years ago, he was persuaded to buy a Mahindra Electric car! If you draw 1 kW of power from a 2 kWh battery pack, the C rate is 0.5) However as vehicle weights increase, one needs higher power and therefore may chose higher voltages. High C rates hurt batteries.

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BCG Report Expects Battery Costs Will Constrain Widespread Market Adoption of Fully Electric Vehicles, Absent a Technology Breakthrough; Forecasts 26% of Major Market New Cars in 2020 To be Hybrid or Electric

Green Car Congress

Although lithium-ion cell and pack costs are expected to fall sharply by 2020, they are unlikely to drop enough to support widespread adoption of fully electric vehicles without a major breakthrough in battery technology, according to a new study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). million will be fully electric, 1.5