Under the Sustainable E-Mobility vertical of Delhi Research Implementation and Innovation (DRIIV), IIT Delhi, EVI Technologies (EVIT) has developed Battery Xchange System (BXS) for 2/30wheeler electric vehicles.
According to the company, the product enables the EV user to book a fully charged battery by locating the nearest exchange station using the mobile/web application.
Presently, the developed BXS is being set up at the IIT Delhi campus for three-wheeler e-rickshaws to study in-depth the challenges and user behaviour towards the concept of battery swapping and to be used in campus only, an official statement by the company said.
The in-process concept design will begin in May 2022 and will help in production changes as per the government policy allied to EV battery swapping stations in India, it added.
The manufacturing and assembling of the battery exchange station will be taken up later based on the standardisation of 2/3-wheeler EV batteries, the company said.
Shipra Misra, CEO, DRIIV, said, 'E-mobility is a strategic focus area of DRIIV (Delhi S&T cluster, an initiative of the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India) and through forging such industry-academia partnerships, we are working towards addressing battery and charging infrastructure-related challenges to deliver on the National Electric Mobility Mission.