{"id":233515,"date":"2026-01-12T01:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/233515\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:48:09","slug":"reliance-industries-pauses-battery-cell-plans-in-india-bloomberg-news-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/233515\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliance Industries pauses battery cell plans in India, Bloomberg News reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Jan 12 (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s Reliance Industries has paused plans to manufacture lithium-ion \u200bbattery cells in India after \u200cfailing to secure Chinese technology, Bloomberg News reported \u200con Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The Mukesh Ambani-led conglomerate, which aimed to start manufacturing cells this year, had been in discussions with Chinese \u2060energy storage \u200cfirm Xiamen Hithium Energy Storage Technology to license its cell \u200dtechnology, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The talks stalled after Xiamen withdrew from the partnership following \u200bChina&#8217;s curb on overseas technology transfers, \u200cthe report said, prompting Reliance to refocus on assembling battery energy storage systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Reuters could not immediately verify the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Reliance Industries did not immediately respond to \u2060Reuters&#8217; request for a \u200bcomment outside regular \u200bbusiness hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Last October, Beijing announced controls on exports of lithium battery \u200dcomponents, requiring \u2060exporters to obtain permits, tightening China&#8217;s grip on technology critical for energy \u2060storage and electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Chandni Shah \u200cin Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu \u200cand Sherry Jacob-Phillips)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 12 (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s Reliance Industries has paused plans to manufacture lithium-ion \u200bbattery cells in India after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[108143,19682,126826,28358,42,43,49995,40,38,41,39,126825],"class_list":{"0":"post-233515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-battery-cells","9":"tag-bloomberg-news","10":"tag-chinese-technology","11":"tag-energy-storage","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-reliance-industries","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories","19":"tag-xiamen-hithium-energy-storage-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}