But in the last few months, something fundamental has shifted. Geopolitics is back at the center of energy.

The escalating conflict involving Iran, the return of a more protectionist and unpredictable United States under President Trump, and the increasingly assertive roles of China and Russia are no longer distant headlines—they are now shaping supply chains, energy prices, and strategic decisions in boardrooms across the world.

For CEOs in the energy transition space, this raises urgent questions:
Are we entering a new era of energy fragmentation?
Will supply chains be redrawn along political lines?
And most importantly—how should businesses prepare for a world where geopolitics, not just economics, drives outcomes?

To help us unpack this, I’m delighted to welcome Pramit Pal Chaudhary.

Pramit is one of India’s most respected voices on geopolitics and global strategy. He has been a foreign policy advisor to the Indian government, a senior fellow at leading global think tanks, and a long-time analyst of how power, policy, and economics intersect.

Today, we go beyond headlines—to explore the tectonic shifts shaping the future of energy, and what they mean for India and the world.

(00:00:15) Introduction: The Fundamental Shift: Geopolitics Returns to Energy

(00:01:57) Is the World Entering an Era of Permanent Conflict?

(00:05:51) Assessing the Escalating Iran-US-Israel Conflict Dynamics

(00:11:13) Unpacking Trump's Personal Animus and Iran Strategy

(00:17:29) Decades of Missteps: Why US Foreign Policy Fails

(00:23:30) China's Strategic Advantage in Energy Independence

(00:25:58) Tiptoeing Around Global Energy Infrastructure Attacks

(00:29:49) India's LPG Crisis and Long-Term Energy Security

(00:35:30) India's Regional Energy Role and LPG Supply Challenges

(00:40:01) Modi's Israel Visit and Rules of Naval Warfare

(00:47:37) How China and Russia Benefit from Global Instability

(00:52:49) Lessons from Conflict for Taiwan Strait Scenarios

(00:54:49) Preparing for Geopolitical Risks: Advice for Energy CEOs

(01:01:52) Energizing India Podcast: Episode Conclusion and Credits

What happens when we plug electric vehicles into cities that were never built for them? Urban designer Zohra Mutabanna joins us to unpack the real design challenges of India’s mobility future...from shared transport to the Avoid-Shift-Improve model, and how our cities can evolve into living, breathing ecosystems instead of chaotic grids.

Welcome to the Energising India Podcast. On this program, we engage with the key protagonists shaping the future of energy, mobility, and sustainability within India and globally. I’m your host, Ravin MIRCHANDAN, and today we step into the world of cities, the spaces that hold our daily lives together yet often crack under the weight of growth, congestion, and unsustainable planning. Today, we speak with Zohra MUTABANNA —an architect, urban designer, and thought leader who believes that cities must be designed as ecosystems, not afterthoughts. She works with the intersection of design, policy, and sustainability, asking bold questions about whether India’s cities are truly ready for electric mobility or whether we risk building EVs into an already broken urban fabric. Zohra brings years of experience reimagining the built environment through resilience, inclusivity, and innovation. With her, we’ll explore the Avoid-Shift and improve framework,the realities of urban transport and shared mobility, and design choices that will determine whether our urban future is chaotic or truly sustainable.

Joining us is Mr. Sudhakar CHIRRA, a serial entrepreneur synonymous with innovation in India’s bus mobility space. Before FreshBus, he founded and led AbhiBus, India’s first bus-ticketing app that reshaped how travelers connect with operators.

Now he heads FreshBus, an all-electric, full-stack intercity bus platform that’s rewriting expectations of cost, speed, and sustainability in mobility. Since launching in 2019, FreshBus has built a battery-powered fleet, carried hundreds of thousands of passengers, and is now backed by a $10.5 million Series A round to scale that ambition nationwide.

With Sudhakar as our guide, today we’ll explore:

● What does it mean to start fresh with a 100% electric fleet?

● How does one build profitability in a capital-intensive asset under real Indian conditions?

● What’s the passenger experience really like when “EV+Tech” replaces convention?

Sudhakar, welcome to the program.

Welcome to the Energizing India Podcast. On this program, we engage with the key protagonists shaping the future of energy, mobility, and sustainability, both in India and globally. I’m your host, Ravin MIRCHANDANI, and today we’re in the driver’s seat with one of India’s most exciting automotive journeys. The transformation of mobility as we knew it in this country. Joining us is a man who quite literally has his fingerprints across the evolution of the Indian automobile industry. Puneet Anand is the vertical head of corporate affairs, corporate communications, and  social responsibilities as AVP with Hyundai Motors, India, and has an enviable 3 decades of experience in the Indian automotive sector. Since 1998, Puneet has been an integral part of Hyundai’s leadership in India, steering pivotal functions and driving growth in a dynamic and often unpredictable automotive sector environment. Today, we look under the hood of Hyundai’s clean energy transition from investments in EVs, hydrogen technology, and renewable energy to localization strategies that boost the resilience of India’s economy. We explore the role of public policy, infrastructure, and community engagement that Hyundai plays in redefining mobility in the next generation. What does the road ahead look like for India’s clean mobility revolution? How does a giant like Hyundai balance cutting-edge innovation with deep local relevance? Puneet ANAND, welcome to the program.

In this pivotal episode, we sit down with Peter Varghese AO, former head of Australia's Office of National Assessments (Australia's intelligence agency), former High Commissioner (Ambassador) to India, and former Australian Secretary of Foreign Affairs, for an unfiltered discussion about the new world order reshaping energy and technology.

Varghese challenges conventional wisdom on self-reliance, warning that abandoning comparative advantage could make us "a heck of a lot poorer." He reveals why containing China is "not feasible," but allowing it to become the Indo-Pacific hegemon would resurrect the Middle Kingdom where "hierarchy was harmony."

With Trump's America imposing 50% tariffs on India and creating "perceptions of unreliability," Varghese explores whether the Quad and AUKUS can survive, and why India-Australia cooperation on critical minerals and AI remains slower than anticipated despite evident synergies.

Key Discussions:

Why China's control of energy technology may be irreversible.

The "salad days" of US leadership and what comes after Trump.

How AI will disrupt diplomacy, universities, and the very concept of expertise.

The hidden risks in post-COVID self-sufficiency drives.

What policymakers consistently get wrong about the China-India-Australia triangle

Co-hosted by Ravin Mirchandani and special guest co-host Ritu David (ex-intelligence analyst, seconded to CIA Afghanistan), this episode delivers rare insights from one of Australia's most experienced strategic thinkers on navigating the collision of energy transition, AI disruption, and great power competition. Essential listening for anyone working in energy, technology, or international business in the Indo-Pacific.

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1991: India’s Near-Default Moment. How Did We Survive — and  in 2025 What  Challenges Come Next? | Montek Singh AHLUWALIA

On this program, we engage with the key thinkers and leaders shaping India's economic, energy, and policy landscape. I'm your host, Ravin MIRCHANDANI, and today, honestly, I'm a little bit starstruck. Joining us on the show is someone we have admired for years and who really needs no introduction at all to the business audience, as he was one of the true architects of the modern India that we inhabit today.

A journey that the country commenced in 1991, Montec Singh AHLUWALIA is an economist, a policy visionary, and also a civil servant who, along with the then-prime minister Manmohan Singh, played a pivotal role in steering India during its 1991 economic crisis. A moment of near default, where the country had to pledge its gold to keep the economy afloat. He served as the deputy chairman of the planning commission from 2004 to 2014, holding the rank of cabinet minister, and before that, he was the first director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF. 

Today we go behind the scenes of that 1991 crisis, what really happened in those 10 stays, battles that were fought in the coridoors of power and how india chose the path of liberalisation, we will also look ahead to the turbulence of the present moment, global trade wars, tariff barriers, and the new era of supply chain of geo politics, what does all of this mean to india and how do we charte the path forward.  

This is a rare and candid conversation with a man who has seen it all from Washington to New Delhi and has helped shape India's economic destiny. Montec Singh AHLUWALIA, the man with the perennial blue turban, welcome to the program!

We are honored to welcome Phil Green, Australia's High Commissioner to India, and a seasoned diplomat with a remarkable career spanning four continents. Over the years, Phil has served as High Commissioner or Ambassador to Germany, Singapore, South Africa, and Kenya, amassing extensive international experience and a deep understanding of global affairs.

A key figure in shaping Australia’s foreign policy, Phil was instrumental in the implementation of the Indo-Pacific strategy following its launch in 2017. He also played a pivotal role in formulating Australia’s approach to the Quad—a strategic partnership between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States.

Phil's contributions extend to advancing clean energy collaboration, having piloted the Australia-Germany Hydrogen Accord in 2021. His career highlights also include serving as International Adviser to former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and being awarded the Order of Australia medal for his exceptional leadership during the response to the Bali bombings.

Join us for an insightful discussion on the evolving Australia-India partnership and its critical role in the global energy transition.

In today’s episode, we’ve decided to shine a spotlight on the role of biofuels—such as ethanol-enriched gasoline, 100% biodiesel, and the increasingly promising sustainable aviation fuel. These innovations hold the potential to alleviate some of the guilt associated with frequent travel.

Joining us is Ranjit Kulkarni, Vice President and General Manager of Honeyworld’s Energy and Sustainable Solutions portfolio. He leads the company’s operations in India and brings valuable insights into this crucial segment of the energy transition.

Mr. Kant is renowned for his role in spearheading initiatives that have significantly impacted the economy, including Startup India, Make in India, and the highly successful Incredible India campaign, which repositioned the country as a global tourism destination. He is also credited with coining the slogan “Kerala: God’s Own Country” during his tenure in the state.

When the Planning Commission was dissolved in 2015, Kant was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the newly created NITI Aayog, the apex public policy think tank responsible for catalyzing India's economic development.

As India's Sherpa at the G20 in 2023, under his leadership, 87 outcomes were achieved, and 118 documents were adopted—an impressive increase from past years. His vision and leadership have firmly established him as a pivotal figure in shaping India’s policy landscape in the 21st century.

In this episode, we explore India's efforts toward energy transition and understand how the country can become a global leader in clean mobility and hydrogen generation.

The introduction of production-linked incentives, along with significant capital investment for electrolyzer manufacturers and developers of green hydrogen and green ammonia, has bolstered confidence in India’s ability to achieve its hydrogen production goals. However, there is ongoing concern among developers about the demand and market uptake for their products.

Today, we are pleased to welcome Shardul Kulkarni, Managing Director and CEO of Deesha Power. With 20 years of experience in the power and renewable energy sectors, Shardul has been instrumental in driving over $1 billion in energy transition investments across Southeast Asia and Western Africa.

Within the Indian green hydrogen community, Shardul is affectionately known as the "hydrogen wala," a passionate advocate for green hydrogen, dedicated to raising awareness and educating others about the vast potential of this transformative energy source.

Since then, we've seen exponential growth: today, there are hundreds of thousands of electric two-wheelers, many thousands of three-wheelers, and thousands of new electric buses being added to the roads every year. Tata alone is targeting 150,000 electric cars this year.

Today on the show, we talk to Uday Narang, CEO of Omega Seki Mobility, one of the major players in the Indian electric vehicle sector. Omega Seki Mobility is transforming both public and goods transportation, not just in India but also around the world. They have launched many industry-first products and are consistently among the top three electric three-wheelers sold in the country. 

The fastest way to clean the air in Indian cities is to convert public transportation, including intra-city and intercity buses, to electric. The government has made significant progress in this area over the last four years, converting over 5,000 buses a year in Indian cities to electric.

Initially, Chinese buses played a key role in this transition, but over the last four years, Indian entrepreneurs have invested boldly to implement new technology made in India for electrification and clean mobility in Indian cities.

Today, we are speaking with one such company, an Indian gem: Eka Mobility. We welcome to the programme Sudhir Chairman, founder and CEO of EKA Pinnacle Industries .

In this episode, we explore what lies ahead for lead-acid batteries, what could be the relevant use cases for them once replaced with lithium, and how we are going to recycle them sustainably. Check out the episode today!

In this episode, we engage with a remarkable company in India that is endeavoring to address these challenges in a unique way.

Today, we speak with Dr. Akshay Singhal, Founder, and CEO of Log 9 Materials, who holds an honors degree in materials engineering from IIT Roorkee and is also a Forbes under 30 Asia honoree. Log 9 was founded in 2015, and in this time, it has amassed 35 industry-defining patents that attest to the organization's first-principle thinking. Log 9 Materials is able to offer batteries that can be charged nine times faster, last nine times longer, and offer nine times higher performance and safety. This is a fun one!

What would happen if all vehicles transitioned to electric? Can the grids in different countries handle such a massive shift? And will wait times for access to charges, and then to charge, become the norm?

Today, we speak to a company addressing both of these challenges. In this episode, we turn our focus to Europe as we interview the CEO of an intriguing charge point operations company that originated in Italy but now operates across Europe. Joining us is Luca Fontanelli, CEO at E-GAP.

In most sub-sectors within the clean mobility sector, the same pattern is evident as well. Legacy lead-acid battery makers stood on the sidelines as CATL, Panasonic, and a myriad of other small startup companies led the race in lithium-ion battery adoption globally. Typically, legacy players have waited because they did not understand the technology and decided to move only when new technology started to become a threat to their existing business.

But in this brave new world, that might be just waiting too long and being caught in the pincers of a Kodak or a Xerox moment. In this episode, we deep dive into the battery sector to understand why this pattern of legacy players taking their time keeps repeating itself. We speak to one of the big daddies of the battery world in India, who also dominates their sector in many of the countries they export to, and who, unlike most legacy players, is moving fast to learn, adopt, and dominate the new technology wins that are raging across their business.

Today, we welcome the Executive Director of Amara Raja Batteries, Vikramadithya Gourineni, on this deep-dive journey.

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Today, we speak to someone who is actually doing that—designing and launching an electric car specifically for urban mobility in India. We speak with Nilesh Bajaj, co-founder & CEO at Vayve Mobility.

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Today we welcome back to our program Gaurav GUPTA, Chief Commercial Officer of MG Motor India. His team recently commissioned a very interesting study through Nielsen in India exploring driver behavior and road use challenges as a run-up to the launch of their latest EV in India... the MG Comet.  

Our host Ravin MIRCHANDANI spoke with Gaurav this week where the conversation covered the findings of the Nielsen study and some teasers on the new Comet soon to be launched.

During our deep dives in this program, we occasionally have special moments like today where we get to chat with a super user of EVs in India. We uncover the perspectives of the most important person in the entire electric mobility value chain - the driver of the vehicle.

Today, we had a conversation with Priyans Muraka, an EV superuser who owns an MG ZS EV and has completed more than 20,000 KMs using it on work trips across India. We discussed why he chose the MG, his experience with not just fast chargers, but also the various charge point operators, and the pain points of early adopting EV users. Priyans also has his own blogs on using his EV across India and brought a wealth of information for CPOs and EV car manufacturers.

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Today most Indian megacities like Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, amongst others already run more than a hundred electric buses each as part of their public transport system. The miracle happened while the rest of the industry was tracking the launch of the Kia EV6, the Mercedes EQS, and the Ather scooters. Quietly and all of a sudden people in the big cities of India are traveling in greater comfort. Air-conditioned buses that are safer and don't pollute the air while millions commute to and back from work every day.  

So today we decided to focus on this public intracity bus sector, and we spoke with Ravi Panga, CEO of the Causis Group. A very interesting company that has acquired an electric bus tech company in Europe and whose electric bus operates in Kyrgyzstan, Mauritius, and even in Qatar for the FIFA world cup and now the new Bombay double-decker electric bus that has us all so very excited.

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Following its successful domination of the European market, the company is focusing on expanding its network in India, the world's fourth-largest automobile market. Fortum is among those who believe that infrastructure is required to conclude the Chicken and Egg narrative and facilitate the transition from ICE to electric vehicles.

We speak to none other than Awadhesh JHA, Executive Director for Fortum Charge & Drive India. 

While the Electric 2-wheeler industry is experiencing breathtaking growth, particularly due to the impact of electric last-mile delivery services, sales of electric cars were lagging. This is starting to change. 17,802 cars were sold last year. of which 15,198 were Tata EVs.

A local Indian OEM leads the race over global automotive giants. What gives? Has the world changed whilst we were sleeping during the corona lockdowns?

Early adopting EV owners have created EV communities to support each other with learnings and hacks. In this conversation, we speak with members of one such EV user community - the Tata Nexon user group, who talked about the bitter & sweet experiences of using their TATA Nexon EVs. We discuss the cost of ownership in relation to the cost of acquisition. 

We also learned that today, Made In India vehicles can stand on their own feet when compared to other vehicles produced globally and win the race of customer delight.

The car is said to be powered by a single electric motor, that it claims will go from 0-100 km/hr in 5.4 seconds. Energized by a 96-kWh battery pack which it says will have a range of 500 km. We speak today with Dhawal Khullar, Co-Founder & CTO of Pravaig Dynamics. 

In this episode, we explore the intricacies of battery swapping, and government incentives and arrive at a conclusion on its role in accelerating EV adoption in India. 

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Their operating model for charging infrastructure is different as well, as they use their chargers as outdoor digital advertising opportunities, generating alternative revenue streams for the business. We speak today with two of the co-founders of Sunfuel Electric, Gul Panag and Sudhir Nayak who together with their team through in-depth usage accessibility and ergonomics research have designed what could become one of the most unique chargers designs in the country.

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Global EV sales reached 2.1 million in 2019 with an overall stock of 7.2 million, indicating that the global EV fleet could grow to 116 million by 2030. EVs with Li-ion batteries are the most common; however, this well-established technology has safety issues related to thermal runaway, a phenomenon caused by cell abuse with fire and explosion consequences. A series of exothermic reactions causes the cells to overheat and emit flammable gas, which can spread from the cell level to the entire battery pack, resulting in fire. This effect can be triggered by a variety of root causes, including cell mechanical abuse, thermal abuse, or electrical abuse.

We have a chicken and egg conundrum today in India with each part of the ecosystem making leaps forward, but in isolation rather than in harmony. Having said that an important layer addressing range anxiety today is in fact the size and the reliability of the ChargePoint Operator. The CPO sector has seen a significant amount of investment in the last 12 months in India, with numerous fast-charging stations being installed around the highways in the country. This is just the beginning; the best is yet to come.

Today we welcome back the CEO of one such ChargePoint Operator Kartikey Hariyani, Managing Director of ChargeZone, who has visited our studios only a year ago but today manages a business that is radically different from the one we have examined at that time. 

As of February 2022, India has a few million electric Rickshaws of varying battery technologies including lead-acid and lithium-ion chemistries. There are some 200 thousand electric scooters, a few thousand electric buses, but less than 20,000 personal electric cars. The passenger car segment, in particular, has a low level of penetration in India with only a few OEMs offering electric vehicles. New launches planned in 2022 this year includes at the top-end the Mini Cooper Electric, the Volvo XC40 Electric, and the Mercedes-Benz EQA. At the other end of the spectrum, TATA, and MG plan to launch new electric vehicles models in the 10 to 15 lakhs price spectrum, but the choice for buyers for electric cars continues to be very limited and the disconnect is looming. So, what's the go? What is the industry doing wrong? What is hampering OEMs from keeping up with the hype that they themselves have created?

To help examine this subject, today we speak with Cyrus Dhabar, Head of Content of Powerdrift; India's biggest automotive media house.

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India's electric vehicle financing market is expected to be about 150 Billion US dollars by 2030, which is nearly 80% of the country's present retail vehicle loan volume. This opens a lot of room for a new financing methodology and for companies in the vehicle financing sector to understand and underwrite EV ownership at lease financing. Beyond the simple loans though there is the opportunity to finance both start-ups as well legacy industry players for a host of opportunities within the ecosystem, such as, for example, battery manufacturing, battery swap technology, various software applications for charge-point operations, interstate roaming, integration of payment apps and even charger manufacturing. Significant risk-related investments by venture capital funds and private equity players are going to be required in each element of the EV ecosystem in India in order to ensure that move to zero-emission mobility is not constrained by various bottlenecks over the next 10 years.

In this episode with Vasudha Madhavan Founder at Ostara Advisors, we look in-depth at the impact that the finance sector in India will have on the electric mobility sector and how it needs to be a crucial pillar of the very foundation of India's move to zero-emission mobility. 

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With over 15,000 electric cars, a few hundred thousand electric bikes, and some 2 million electric rickshaws on roads in India already,   the big move to electric is well underway.  But new EV buyers continue to have doubts when making the decision to switch wondering for example, are EVs truly 100% clean mobility? What happens to your new EV after the useful life of the battery?  Does one need to buy a whole new set of batteries for example? When will the finance industry get their heads around financing electric vehicle procurement and most importantly how can the EV industry address the issue of sustainability and the second life of the batteries?  

These are some of the issues that we will dive into with an industry leader best place to answer some of these questions.  In this episode, we speak with Rajeev CHABA, President & Managing Director of MG Motors India.

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In this episode, we have a great conversation for you examining the electric mobility industry in India from a completely different perspective. This is going to be a fun episode as today we talk to Alisha Sachdev, a journalist and TV anchor with CNBC TV-18. Alisha was a former news anchor with NDTV and writes for the business pages of The Hindustan Times. She is one of India's preeminent media experts covering the auto sector, given that she has interviewed almost every business and every CEO in this industry. Enjoy!

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We speak with Mr. Sajid Mubashir, who is a Scientist G with the Department of Science and Technology the Government of India, with the Ministry of Science and Technology since 2016, reporting directly to the principal secretary. Sajid’s team is working on creating a Road map for Research and Development in all of the sectors of Electric mobility including battery and Charging Infrastructure, vehicle system integration, electric components, materials, and manufacturing. Enjoy!

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But there is a dark side to Lithium, the need to rape & pillage entire hillsides to power our mobility + communications using a finite source for an ever-hungry and growing human demand, is frankly not sustainable. If all of us on the planet move to electric mobility today there would just not be enough Lithium to power our hopes and prices would soar, resulting in all of us making choices to keep polluting and staying with ICE technology. Moreover, Lithium mining requires significant water resources and as of 2020, it takes 2 million litres of water to mine enough Lithium to power just 90 cars. 

Hydrogen is often thought of as a panacea to this problem as an FCEV uses one-tenth amount of Lithium for mobility. But there may be an exciting new development that has popped its head up over the horizon. It's a battery technology that's been going rounds over few years and now seems to finally be landed on a firm footing and could help save the future of our hopes and aspirations for a cleaner planet that is not built on the premise of humans pillaging scarce natural resources. This surprising technology could be Sodium-ion batteries. 

Faradion, a British company based in Sheffield in the United Kingdom is pioneering the next generation of advanced low-cost battery materials, implying sodium-ion technology which itself is extinguishable from leading other technologies for energy storage in terms of performance, but can be far cheaper than Lithium-ion batteries. We speak today with James Quinn, CEO of Faradion and a key global technology executive in this sector as well as an entrepreneur in both public and private companies.

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Fast chargers are expensive and yet without the network, only the early adoptive adventure seekers will lean towards driving an Electric Vehicle. Charge-point operators or put more simply companies that invest in the infrastructure to provide EV users with the ability to charge at multiple locations will play a very important role globally not just in India in facilitating the penetration of EV’s to the point that they are ubiquitous in our lives.

The CPO space globally is made up of either the nimble or very fast-growing start-ups or the other end of the spectrum large investments made by power utility companies to ensure they can keep or sequester this sector directly for themselves.

In India, we are yet to see how this will play out and the market is experiencing so very exciting investments right now in all forty small start-ups already operating in the country as CPO’s, but will reliance create a jio wave in the sector or will Adani come to dominate it soon that’s what we need to find out.

Today we explore the CPO sector in India and speak to the CEO and managing director of one of India’s largest charges point operators TecSo Charge Zone.

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It created a sort of response & comments online that normally are reserved for incendiary statements. People commented that we were being unfair to these Chinese imports as we were calling them unsafe and that we haven’t done our research on street level Battery Charing & handling of lead which had improved in the last few years in Delhi.   

So we decided to check it out ourselves and unravel the drama behind Delhi’s E reaction to uncover the number and data that makes this sector tick.

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As an entrepreneur, he is widely recognized for his role in shaping the Indian Electric scooter industry and also for his contributions to various forums in the Electric Vehicles sector both in India and globally.

He completed his Master’s in Business Administration from Huron University in London, and apprenticed with Land Rover in West Midlands, UK, before returning to India and becoming the first entrepreneur to introduce the electric vehilces to the country in 2001. His EV venture was already selling vehicles in 2007, before Tesla has even sold its first car commercially.

He has held various key positions in organizations such as the YPO or Young President’s Organization and EO, Entrepreneurs Organisation and was previously also Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s New Delhi State Council.

He is the Managing Director of Hero Electric. Naveen MUNJAL.

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Our conversation today is with Reji Kumar PILLAI, President of the India Smart Grid Forum and chairman of the Global Smart Energy Federation, known across the E-mobility and power sectors globally as a result

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Mahindra Electic has sold over 32,000 electric vehicles in India. Yes, you heard right, there are already over 32,000 electric vehicles on the road in India today - and these are just from Mahindra, who plan to sell over 500,000 electric vehicles in India by 2025.

To kick off our 2021 series, Energizing India podcast co-hosts, Trivikram APTE and Sunil BHAMBHANI speak with the MD & CEO of Mahindra Electric, Mahesh BABU. This insightful conversation covered Mahesh’s own journey with Mahindra, the company’s plans to sell 500,000 EVs in Indian within 5 years, and the fact that Mahindra is focusing these to be 3 and 4 wheeled EVs, the journey so far with the challenges posed by varying charging standards and an ecosystem that has yet to evolve for EVs, battery swap versus charge strategies and how EVs can help provide emergency powers to homes as well

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In this fireside chat, we discuss Niti Ayog's initiatives to facilitate investment establishing over 50 GWH manufacturing capacity in India in the next few years, covering in detail what will happen to battery prices, the geopolitical challenges of importing the raw materials in such large quantities when China dominates the value chain to its advantage, as well as their forecasts for when such a major uplift in capacity will happen in India. Tune in to hear perspectives from different parts of the lithium value chain.

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Sulajja FIRODIA Founder & CEO at Kinetic Green Energy is a pioneer of electric vehicles in India, staying true to her family heritage that pioneered the iconic LUNA in the 60s and India's first gearless scooter, the Kinetic Honda in the 80s. Sulajja is one of India's well-recognized women entrepreneurs presently working to change the passenger transit and light goods transport segment and how this important aspect of mobility in India is being decarbonized through innovative electric solutions.

Listen in to hear the journey of Sulajja from her days at Carnegie Mellon to today leading the electric revolution in light goods transport and what is her dream for Kinetic Green. 

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Innovations in India typically lean towards the E-commerce & service sectors with multiple start-ups springing up in these sectors over the past decade. However, there is one start-up that went against the trend and ventured into the more capital intensive sector of design & manufacturing, leading the path toward decarbonized mobility in India, but also making that mobility really very cool.

Ather Energy is changing the game in India, changing the game in the Indian two-wheeler market with its Ather 450x scooter which is completely electric and runs on lithium-ion batteries. Ather is in effect the Tesla of the two-wheeler mobility market in India, demonstrating that an electric bike need not compromise on its looks, range, speed, or safety.

Listen in to hear the journey of Ather from 2013 to today and what is planned for the future.  Tarun is candid about the secret of their success and also about policy changes that will help the industry grow faster.

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 Today we have a conversation with Maxson LEWIS, on the government policies for EVs in India, the future of hydrogen & the 2030 dream of complete electrification

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Today in our Pilot Podcast, we talk about people & culture and the impact of the Covid-19 at Ador Digatron, one of the pioneers of battery formation, charging, and testing equipment in India.

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