India's first EV battery plant is coming up in Karnataka ...
Bengaluru: The son-in-law of India's biggest steel tycoon is betting big on converting coal tar into graphite anodes for electric-car batteries in a bid to test China's monopoly in the sector. Vikram Handa set up Epsilon Advanced Materials Pvt — India's first manufacturer of lithium-ion battery parts — in the southern state of Karnataka in August, sourcing the raw material from the ...