QnA: Trontek Battery Packs | Samrath Kochar, Co-Founder, Trontek

In this special podcast, let's chat with Mr. Samrath Kochar, Co-Founder, Trontek, a Delhi based company having its Li-ion battery assembly unit in Delhi NCR, and an R&D and design centre in Bangalore, India. More than one lakh e-Rickshaws are powered by Trontek batteries. In 2017, Trontek started supplying Lithium Ion battery packs to major two wheeler EV OEMs in the Indian market too. Let's chat with Samrath to find out what's happening at Trontek.

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Questions

• What pressures do you feel to take this company ahead?
• Setting up a manufacturing plant, expansion, product launches all cost huge money. How have you been funded so far?
• Any Plans for cell level manufacturing plant in India.
• What is the future of Lead-Acid batteries especially for e-rickshaws? Will the transformation to Lithium-ion happen at all?
• BMS features: What are the features? Is the software done in-house?
• Battery: Expected Battery Life of Lead-Acid and Lithium-ion Batteries - What are the Charge-discharge cycles that the batteries are warrantied for? What degradation can we expect at the end of warranty life?
• Battery: What kind of repair / cell balancing is being addressed by the company? Any buybacks and recycling?
• Safety: Working with both chemistries ( LFP and NMC) which one has a bigger role in future for EV and for Solar Batteries usages.
• Recent Battery Fires - How does an individual deal with it? Prevent it in the 1st place.
• What are the milestones for this year and the end of FY 21?
• Turnaround time for battery replacement or repair.​

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