Komaki to launch fireproof batteries: EV player is in the process of acquiring the patent

 The ICE industry is ancient and has had complications like vehicle fires during early years, but electric is in early stages and over time it will improve, said Subhash Sharma, operations head at Komaki.

Electric vehicle player Komaki, which launched the Ranger and Venice electric two-wheelers in January and the DT 3000 last month, plans to launch fireproof batteries in India that it has been working on for the last year, a top executive at the company told FE.

“We are in the process of acquiring the patent (for fireproof batteries),” Subhash Sharma, operations head at Komaki, said.

Over the last few days, there have been at least four reported incidents of two-wheeler electric vehicles catching fire. Fireproof batteries, at least theoretically, can ensure no such incidents happen with Komaki vehicles.

According to Sharma, EVs can catch fire due to three reasons: Poor quality lithium cells, cell leakage inside the battery, and mismatch between parameters of battery controller and motor (powertrain). He, however, added that internal combustion engines (ICE) are as susceptible to fire as EVs are. “Both gasoline and lithium are highly inflammable—the self-ignition temperature of gasoline is a little over 210-degree Celsius, while that of lithium is about 135-degree Celsius. The safety is in the technology that is used to harness the energy. The ICE industry is ancient and has had these complications during early years, but electric is in early stages and over time it will improve,” he said.

At Komaki, he said vehicles are actively observed and checked with accurate calculation parameters between current flow and battery capacity with temperature control features in BMS and controller. “We also take measures to purchase the best quality cells to develop safer batteries and reduce the risk of such incidents. We use metal outer casing instead of plastic, like some of our competitors do,” Sharma said.

While its EV business was set up in 2016, KBL Komaki Pvt Ltd has been into bearings and driveshaft business since 1987. For its EVs, it currently has 350 dealerships. It has sold over 2,500 units of the Ranger and the Venice combined, and this calendar year it will launch a few more models.

Rajkummar Rao's PAN card used in loan fraud, his credit rating drops

Rajkummar Rao has requested an investigation by the Credit Information Bureau (India) Limited (CIBIL).

Rajkummar Rao revealed on Saturday that he was a victim of fraud, with his PAN card being used to obtain a loan in his name. The actor claimed that his credit score had been harmed as a result of the scam. He has requested an investigation by the Credit Information Bureau (India) Limited (CIBIL).

Taking to Twitter, Rajkummar wrote, "#FraudAlert My pan card has been misused and a small loan of ₹2500 has been taken on my name. Due to which my cibil score has been affected. @CIBIL_Official please rectify the same and do take precautionary steps against this."

Rajkummar, on the other hand, has been a victim of fraud for the second time this year. In January, he spoke out about a phoney email sent in his name in an attempt to extort Rs. 3 crore.

He had uploaded a screenshot of the email on Instagram Stories. The actor wrote, “#Fake guys please be careful of such fake people. I don’t know anyone named Saumya. They are using fake email ids and managers to con people.”

According to HT, Rajkummar had shared the mail which read, “Hi Arjun, As per our last conversation to you and my manager Saumya, I hereby say that I agree to work in the said film titled Honeymoon package, which is being written by Mr Santosh Maskey and the director on the crew is Also Mr Santosh Maskey. As I am physically not present in Mumbai, I am sending this consent on mail."

"The process of signing and script narration, the hard copy of the mailed agreement would be done once we are in Mumbai. The agreement will come into effect only when the agreed signing amount of ₹3,10,000,00 (50% of the total fees) is credited to my bank account or as per My manager Saumya said you are giving me 10,00,00 in cash and 3,00,000,00 by cheque. I am comfortable on 6th of January for the narration in Hyderabad Ramoji Studio. You, director & Producer, are invited here along with all above the mail, Regards, Rajkumar Rao.”

Rajkummar's most recent film was Badhaai Do, in which he co-starred with Bhumi Pednekar. 

Maharashtra: Distribution of departments in Uddhav cabinet, know who got which ministry

 

Important ministries in the Uddhav government have come to the NCP and Congress. Many important departments including Home, Finance are with Congress and NCP. At the same time, Uddhav Thackeray's son Aditya Thackeray has been given the Ministry of Tourism and Environment.

 

Division of Departments in Maharashtra

Highlights

• Departments have been divided in the Uddhav government in Maharashtra, NCP and Congress share many important ministries including finance, home
• Aaditya Thackeray, son of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, got Environment Ministry, NCP leader Ajit Pawar got Finance Ministry
• Now a total of 43 ministers in the Uddhav government, when the Uddhav government took oath on November 28, at that time two ministers were made from all the three parties.

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Departments have been divided in the Uddhav government in Maharashtra. After the formation of the government and the expansion of the cabinet, after long talks between the three parties of Maha Aghadi, now the departments of the government have been divided. In the Uddhav government, NCP leader Anil Deshmukh has been given the Home Ministry and Ajit Pawar the Finance Ministry. Aaditya Thackeray, son of Shiv Sena leader and Uddhav Thackeray, has been given the tourism and environment ministry. Most of the important ministries are in the account of Congress and NCP. After the recent expansion, there have been a total of 43 ministers in the Uddhav government. When the Uddhav government was sworn in on November 28, at that time two ministers each from the three parties Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP were made. Maharashtra Congress President Balasaheb Thorat and Congress's Nitin Raut, Shiv Sena's Eknath Shinde and Subhash Desai, NCP's Jayant Patil and Chhagan Bhujbal took oath along with Uddhav. In the subsequent expansion, 36 ministers took oath. Come, let's have a look at all the departments- Cabinet Minister

 

Chitra	Minister (Party)	ministry
	Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena)	General Administration, Information and Public Relations, Law and Judiciary and other departments which have not yet been allotted
	Deputy CM Ajit Pawar (NCP)	finance and ministry of planning
	Eknath Shinde (Shiv Sena)	Ministry of Urban Development
	Subhash Desai (Shiv Sena)	Industry and Mining and Ministry of Marathi
	Aditya Thackeray (Shiv Sena)	Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Protocol
	Balasaheb Thorat (Congress)	revenue ministry
	Chhagan Bhujbal (NCP)	Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection
	Jayant Patil (NCP)	Water Resources and Command Area Development
	Ashok Chavan (Congress)	Public Works (Except Public Undertakings)
	Dilip Dattatreya Patil (NCP)	Labor, State Excise
	Rajendra Bhaskarrao Singane (NCP)	Food and Drug Administration
	Rajesh Ankushrao Tope (NCP)	public health and family welfare
	Nitin Kashinath Raut (Congress)	energy
	Varsha Eknath Gaikwad (Congress)	school education
	Jitendra Satish (NCP)	housing
	Sunil Chhatrapati Kedar (Congress)	Dairy Development, Sports and Youth Welfare
	Vijay Vadettiwar (Congress)	Other Backward Classes, Socially and Educationally Backward Classes, Khar Land Development
	Amit Deshmukh (Congress)	Medical Education, Cultural Affairs
	Uday Ravindra Samant (Shiv Sena)	Higher and technical education
	Dadaji Bhuse (Shiv Sena)	Agriculture, Ex-Servicemen Welfare
	Sanjay Dulichand Rathod (Shiv Sena)	One, Disaster Management
	Gulabrao Raghunath Patil (Shiv Sena)	water supply and sanitation
	Casey Padvi (Congress)	tribal development
	Sandeepanrao Asaram Bhumare (Shiv Sena)	Employment Guarantee, Horticulture
	Balasaheb alias Shyamrao Patil (NCP)	Cooperation, Marketing
	Anil Parab (Shiv Sena)	Transport, Parliamentary Affairs
	Yashomati Thakur (Congress)	Women and Child Development
	Dhananjay Munde (NCP)	social justice
	Shankarrao Yashwantrao (Farmers Revolutionary Party)	Soil and Water Conservation

state Minister

No.	Minister (Party)	ministry
	Abdul Sattar (Shiv Sena)	(Ministry of State), Rural Development, Port Land Development and Special Assistance
	Satej Patil (Congress)	Home (Urban), Housing, Transport, Information Technology, Parliamentary Affairs, Ex-Servicemen Welfare
	Shambhuraje Desai (Shiv Sena)	Home (Rural), Finance, Planning, State Excise, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Marketing
	Datta Filling (NCP)	Public Works (Except Public Undertakings), Soil and Water Conservation, Forests, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries, General Administration
	Vishwajit Kadam (Congress)	Cooperation Agriculture, Social Justice, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection, Minorities Development and Auqaf, Marathi Language
	Rajendra Patil Yadravkar (Shiv Sena)	Public Health and Family Welfare, Medical Education, Food and Drug Administration, Textile, Cultural Affairs
	Sanjay Bansode (NCP)	Environment, Water Supply, Public Works (Public Undertakings), Employment Guarantee, Earthquake Rehabilitation, Parliamentary Affairs
	Prajakta Tanpure (NCP)	Urban Development, Energy, Tribal Development, Higher and Technical Education, Disaster Management, Relief and Rehabilitation
	Aditi Tatkare (NCP)	Industries, Mining, Tourism, Horticulture, Sports, Youth Welfare, Protocol, Information and Public Relations
	Omprakash alias Bachchu Babarao Kadu (Prahar Janshakti Party)	Water Resources and Area Development, School Education, Women and Child Development, Other Backward Classes, Open Castes, Workers