Reliance Halts Cell-Making Plans After Failed Bid for China Tech – Bloomberg
Reliance Industries Ltd. has paused plans to make lithium-ion battery cells in India after failing to secure Chinese technology, said people familiar with the matter, reflecting how even the country’s most powerful businesses are struggling to build out an independent clean-energy supply chain.
The Mukesh Ambani-led oil-to-telecoms conglomerate, which had aimed to begin cell manufacturing this year, had been in discussions with a Chinese lithium iron phosphate supplier Xiamen Hithium Energy Storage Technology Co. to license cell technology, according to the people who did not want to be identified as the information is not public.
