5Ah Sodium ion battery manufacturing & prototyping facility
Principal Investigator
Prof. Nitin Muralidharan
Objective
- Establish a facility to manufacture, prototype and validate 5Ah sodium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and grid energy storage.
Description
- The initiative includes upstream materials, electrode engineering, cell prototyping, testing and diagnostics, post-mortem analysis, and battery field demonstration through end-of-life processing with modeling and technoeconomic cross cutting capabilities. The initiative will form a partnership between IITM and Commercial/Industrial Partners to develop science, engineering, and manufacturing solutions for next-generation batteries designed specifically for Electric Vehicle and BESS applications . The proposed investment of ₹10 Cr INR, includes research and development, manufacturing scale-up, and facility investments to create a manufacturing line exclusively for Na-ion systems with potential future proofing that can adapt to Li based systems .
Impact
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