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Companies invited to set up battery plants

overnment of India is planning of 20 are likely to be identified. This
to roll out tenders inviting move will bring in competitiveness in
Gcompanies for setting up 50-GW the storage system manufacturing.
battery manufacturing base in India Proposals fpr the locations of the plants
with an investment of $50 billion. There will be sought from the states by NITI
is a possibility that the cuts in the duty Aayog. The Aayog has also directed
will also reduce the tax by half. There
are plans to cut the import and export the states to reduce the state GST
duty for the next eight years to all the rate, facilitate land acquisition, provide
successful bidders. The government has concessional electricity, single-window
already scaled the programme of battery clearance and environmental clearance.
manufacturing from 40 GW to 50 GW This move is expected to bring in
as per a proposal already sent to the competitiveness in the storage system
cabinet. manufacturing. As the government has
The facilities must be installed by 2022 planned to shift 30 % of the existing
and then the companies will start getting fleet to electric vehicles by 2020, the
incentives till 2030. As per the guidelines, battery storage demand is expected to
minimum of five locations and maximum touch 300 GW mark.

Mohali gets first 3D traffic signal

ohali became the first city fully commercial scale. This is a base
in the country to have 3D technology and further extensions like
Msmart traffic signal. The new synchronisation of traffic lights, creation
system will have sensors which would of green corridor and managing the
automatically switch on the green and traffic lights of entire Punjab while sitting
red signals depending upon the number at one place is possible too.
of vehicles coming from that side and
would reduce the time to stop at the
traffic signals.
The actuated signals incur high initial
and maintenance costs than fixed-
time signals. The cost varies from Rs
70 lakh to Rs 1Cr. Around 450 traffic
signals operational across Punjab can be
converted into 3D fully actuated traffic
signals after the successful completion
of the pilot project in Mohali on a

Exide launches sealed, maintenance-free
automotive battery

attery manufacturing company The battery is said to be the only
Exide Industries Ltd has recently battery equipped with a magic eye
Blaunched the “country’s first” that can accurately indicate the health
completely sealed and maintenance-free of the battery and determine its end
battery for the automotive after-market. of life. However, the pricing of the
The new battery, ‘Advanz’, is currently battery have not been disclosed. The
the “only one of its kind in the Indian company has declared that the product
market” that does not require any will be available for all types of cars in
topping up, as per a statement by the the Indian market and comes with a
company. 15-month warranty.

10 June-July ’19 / TrafficInfraTech www.trafficinfratech-com-500653.hostingersite.com