IIT Kanpur develops low cost sustainable batteries; Check details here

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has announced that low price point batteries have been developed by Tejas Kusurkar and Rishi Srivastava.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has announced that low price point batteries have been developed by Tejas Kusurkar and Rishi Srivastava. The batteries are 100 per cent sustainable and made with a material commonly available by Offgrid company which aims to service multiple industries such as renewables, microgrids, electric vehicles and utilities through its different variants of ZincGel batteries.

The start-up company has got support from Shell E4 which has conducted a 3-day event -- E4 programme -- encouraging the start-up industry around themes like Future of mobility, Digitalization of the energy industry, and Future of energy and the event consists of fireside chats, startup pitches and virtual networking sessions.

“The E4 programme intends to accelerate India’s transition to a sustainable energy future by becoming a major actor in the entrepreneurial ecosystem by linking talent, technology, capital and know-how for energy entrepreneurs in the country,” said the spokesperson of the company. We are proud to say that, currently, most of the team members are PhDs and MTech from IITK and we are always looking for world-class talent to involve in our exciting journey of innovating in energy storage.

Explaining about the future of the start-up industry, the spokesperson of Shell said, “A start-up career will be a more meaningful post that experience. Diving into a start-up as a first job experience may be a bit chaotic for a new graduate.”

IIT Kanpur was established in 1960 through the provisions of an act of Parliament. It is a public engineering college that offers more than 60 courses across five streams. The institute ranks at 5th position for engineering and 6th overall as per NIRF 2019. Internationally, IIT Kanpur was ranked 291 in QS World University Rankings for 2020.

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