CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar will visit India’s first lithium cell manufacturing facility at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, tomorrow. This state-of-the-art facility has been set up by the Chennai based Munoth Industries Limited with an outlay of Rs. 165 crores.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rajeev Chandrasekhar has launched the pre-production run of India’s first lithium-ion cell manufacturing facility at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.

Detailed explanation-3: -Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar will launch the pre-production run of India’s first Lithium cell manufacturing facility in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh today (16 September).

Detailed explanation-4: -2. Exide Industries – On Sep 27, 2022, Exide Industries announced the start of the construction of one of a multi-gigawatt hour lithium-ion cell manufacturing facility at Haraluru, Bengaluru, under its subsidiary, Exide Energy Solutions Limited (EESL).

Detailed explanation-5: -Between 1976 and 1986, Goodenough was head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford. It was here that he and his team showed how oxide cathodes would perform in a Li-ion battery and would be safer than the previous lithium designs.