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  "Kolkata: India's largest storage battery maker Exide Industries is planning to start production of lithium-ion batteries from its joint venture plant in Gujarat by end of this calendar year. Aiming at entering India's electric vehicle market and grid-based applications, Exide had formed a 75:25 joint venture with Switzerland-based Leclanché SA, one of the world's leading energy storage solution companies, in June last year. The JV company's production plant in Gujarat is the first such indigenous facility in the country for manufacturing lithium-ion batteries and provide energy storage systems for the EV market, with the government's push towards promoting electric mobility. "

• Neometals scores high-grade nickel at Mt Edwards

  "ASX-listed Neometals has intersected massive nickel sulphides at its Mt Edwards project in the Goldfields region of Western Australia with drilling returning a cracking intersection of 4m @ 6.3% nickel within a broader 11m @ 2.6% nickel from 108m down-hole at the Zabel prospect."

• BHP boosts nickel reserves by 77%, gears up for EV market

  "BHP Group is expanding its nickel business and plans to ramp up sales for the fast-growing electric vehicle sector, Asset President Eddie Haegel said on Monday. "The electrification of transport is certainly shaping our long-run view of nickel as an attractive commodity," Haegel told the Diggers and Dealers mining conference in Western Australia."

• Energy storage installations to grow 122-fold by 2040; India among top 3

  "The global installed capacity will grow from a modest 9 GW/17 GWh as of 2018 to 1,095 GW/2,850 GWh in the next two decades. Just 10 countries will account for almost 75% of the overall gigawatt market, with China, USA, India and Germany leading the pack."

• India's Sterlite Sees $35 Billion Energy Storage Opportunity

  "Sterlite Power Grid Ventures Ltd., one of India's biggest private transmission companies, sees a $35 billion investment opportunity into grid-connected energy storage projects in the country over the next decade to support government renewables targets. Chief Executive Officer Pratik Agarwal said in an interview in New Delhi that he expects central and state governments to issue battery tenders totaling several gigawatts of capacity by no later than the end of next year. "

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