Log9 Materials right now unveiled India’s first indigenously-developed cell manufacturing facility at its campus in Jakkuru, Bengaluru, taking the very first step in the direction of making India self-reliant in assembly the nation’s future electrical mobility targets.
This cell manufacturing facility constructed by Log9 goes to be South East Asia’s largest cell manufacturing line. At a time when majority of the cells and batteries utilized in India’s electrical autos are being imported from different nations, this growth provides a brand new lease of life for the nation’s mobility imaginative and prescient to show to electrical considerably by 2030.
More so, this milestone additionally places India on the worldwide map of deep-tech organizations, which can additional pave approach for the new-generation Indian startups to rise and shine within the deep-technology enviornment within the instances to come back.
The inauguration day of the nation’s first cell manufacturing line was proudly referred to as as ‘Day Zero’ by Log9 Materials; at the present time additionally marked Log9’s seventh anniversary, for the reason that startup’s inception in 2015. Day Zero refers to the start line by way of reimagining electrical mobility in India commemorating a big day marking the start of a change in India’s EV sector.
With the newly-launched facility, Log9 is aiming to attain no less than 50MWh of peak cell manufacturing capability within the subsequent one yr, after which they’d be scaling to over 5GWh within the subsequent 3-5 years.
Day Zero supplied impetus to Log9’s basis of the Responsible Delivery Movement — an initiative the place they attempt to cut back the carbon footprint generated by the final mile logistics sector in India. At The Day Zero observance by Log9, Dr Ok Sivan, Ex-Chairperson, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was current because the Chief Guest, and Smt. Gunjan Krishna, IAS, Commissioner, Department of Industries & Commerce, Government of Karnataka was the Guest of Honour.
Among different notable dignitaries and friends current included Log9’s traders, advisors, enterprise companions and ecosystem companions, together with senior leaders and representatives from firms like Amara Raja Batteries Limited (ARBL), Umicore, CBC and BluSmart, amongst others.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Ok Sivan, Ex-Chairperson, ISRO drew a parallel of ISRO founder Dr Vikram Sarabhai’s imaginative and prescient with Log9’s imaginative and prescient for India’s future development. “Just as Dr. Sarabhai many years back understood and laid emphasis on indigenous innovation to advance and reap large scale benefits of space-tech, similarly Log9’s pathbreaking indigenous research and infrastructure development shall bring India closer to self-reliance in energy storage and EV sectors in the near future,” stated Dr. Ok Sivan.
He additional added, “Today, materials science and tech competency is the need of the hour for India’s advancement, and Log9 is already doing wonderful work in this area. I am confident that indigenously produced cells and batteries in India pioneered by Log9 and backed by innovative technology and cell chemistry and high energy density will not only make India proud and self-reliant, but also in the long run create history for India and the entire world.”
“I believe that with Indian companies like Log9 taking the lead and showing the way forward for disruption and innovation in our country, the day is not very far when even foreign giant companies like Tesla would be procuring cells from us!”
Gunjan Krishna, IAS, Commissioner, Department of Industries & Commerce, Government of Karnataka congratulated Log9 for its distinctive achievement and stated, “It is inspiring and exciting to see the work done by Indian startups like Log9 helping the nation’s climate action goals as well as advancing the cause of bettering our Planet.”
She added, “It is imperative today to build climate-friendly technologies and products as the country increasingly moves from conventional fuel sources to alternate clean or renewable energy sources. And in enabling that, building innovative and future-ready energy storage solutions in India, for India will be the key. I am delighted to see Log9 taking a step forward to that with its extraordinary batteries and cell manufacturing capabilities.”
Dr Akshay Singhal, Co-Founder & CEO, Log9 Materials stated, “We at Log9 are extremely proud and happy to launch India’s first cell manufacturing line, which reflects a giant leap forward in empowering India with all the flexibility and scale that would be required to give the country the right impetus for ushering its EV-led future. Thus, for Log9, Day Zero marks the day that will usher a new era of India-made cells for India.”
He added, “This special Day also marks our 7th anniversary and is therefore presented as a culmination of the groundbreaking efforts by LogNiners throughout our seven-year-long journey so far. Our cells have been designed grounds-up in India, for India; and this means that Log9’s cells and batteries are the best suited for Indian operating conditions, climate and customers, and are hence they are going to play a crucial role in making India self-reliant while helping the nation realize its ambitious electric mobility vision.”
“With the momentum garnered from Log9’s Day Zero event, we will be going onwards and upwards and pledge to do everything possible enable our country to accelerate and lead within the intersectional areas of e-mobility, EV-tech, clean energy and clean tech, sustainability and deep technologies,” added Akshay.
Kartik Hajela, Co-Founder & COO, Log9 Materials added, “It is ironical but true that India despite being a talent-dense economy still starves of grounds-up innovation in the field of deep-tech and EV-tech. When we at Log9 started our journey, we could have either borrowed from what was present in the market and further built on it; but we instead chose to work on a blank canvas, and over the years, with multiple trials, errors and failures, we have been able to better our product and technologies.”
He added, “And today, with utmost pride, we can announce that we have finally made our mark by bringing to India, the best of the battery and cell technology available. India as a market demands products designed bespoke for the country and not carried forward from some other market. In that respect, we have been able to understand the pulse of the market and our customers well and hence bring to them the best that the world has to offer.”
“Be it designing products or the impact they have on the ecosystem to enabling our stakeholders to bring about a positive difference to the larger world, it is Responsibility that drives Log9, and shall carry forward our transformative legacy in the times to come,” stated Kartik.
The occasion additionally laid out Log9’s future plans vis-à-vis the corporate’s know-how, R&D and enterprise scaling roadmap — starting from the varieties of cell chemistries, cell components and power options that Log9 is working with in addition to the startup’s formidable targets to scale up charging infrastructure, EV and clear power enablement, significantly for industrial B2B transportation and logistics area.
Notably, as of date, India’s EV trade is essentially depending on imports for assembly its demand for EV batteries. This majorly has two hostile repercussions. One, it makes us depending on different nations for assembly our personal EV transformation imaginative and prescient, and in addition results in India’s commerce deficits with the respective international nations rising, which is detrimental for our financial system in the long term.
Secondly, these batteries and particularly the cells used within the batteries are by no means designed for the Indian working situations which is sort of evident from the rising mishaps occurring throughout all varieties of EV platforms. By introducing its superlative, future-facing batteries that final 9 instances greater than the standard ones and take a fraction of a time to recharge, Log9 is assured that they’re properly on the journey to vary India’s EV trade ceaselessly for the higher in addition to nurturing sustainability with none caveats.
As an extra step in the direction of decreasing the carbon footprint of the batteries manufactured by Log9 and for standing taller of their pursuit of Pioneering Responsible Energy, they’ve joined arms with a startup which has a patented know-how in Lithium recycling, which in flip will even allow Log9 to supply economically viable batteries to the shoppers.
Log9’s long run imaginative and prescient is to be essentially the most revered and most accountable model within the clear mobility and power sectors throughout all tropical nations by 2030. The Day Zero marked the inception of producing India’s first indigenous cells, which Log9 believes won’t simply go a great distance in making India self-reliant in EV area, but in addition convey to the Indian clients, the perfect of the battery and cell applied sciences obtainable available in the market.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”