12 Climate Technologies For 2024
Welcome to the year-ending edition of The Ostara Newsletter! We close 2023 with a preview of 12 Climate Technologies that are likely to define 2024, drawn from McKinsey’s Climate Tech Preview published in Dec 2023, corroborated with our own Ostara Insights over the years. These 12 technologies are highly interconnected and hold the potential to reduce as much as […]
Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage
Dear Reader, Later this month, at COP 28 in Dubai, delegates from nearly every country on Earth will gather to negotiate global goals for tackling climate change, present their individual countries’ plans for contributing to those goals, and report on their progress. There can be no better time to shine the spotlight on one of […]
Circular Economy in the Automotive Industry
Hello Reader, As the Sustainability wave sweeps the globe, it’s heartening to see the automotive industry taking a strong approach in this direction. This approach to production can redefine the way vehicles are designed, manufactured, used, and disposed of, by prioritizing the principles of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Regenerate. By adopting circular economy principles, the […]
Batteries: The Key to Energy Transition?
Global investments in Energy Transition technologies reached a record high of $1.3 trillion in 2022, a 19% increase from 2021, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) with major investments into solar and wind technologies. In the first six months of 2023, new investments in Renewable Energy which is a sub-set of the Energy […]
The EV Revolution in Motorcycles
In the dynamic landscape of India’s two-wheeler market, where the electric scooter revolution has been stealing the spotlight, the presence of motorcycles, which constitute over 65% of the annual two-wheeler market in India, has been overlooked. We are at the cusp of an exciting era of electrification in the #motorcycle segment that presents breakout investment […]
Powering Urban Transit with Electric Buses!
Imagine hopping on a bus that doesn’t rumble with a noisy engine, doesn’t emit clouds of exhaust, and doesn’t rely on fossil fuels. Instead, it glides through the streets silently, powered by clean and sustainable electricity. Yes, we’re diving headfirst into the remarkable realm of electric buses – the next big revolution in urban transportation! […]
EV Battery Recycling II
Hey Everyone!! We are back with our monthly edition to dive into India’s recent Battery Waste Management Rules as well as feature select global actors in this space & their recycling technologies. The potential value creation for EV battery recycling, estimated at $95 billion per year by 2040, is massive and is attracting attention from […]
EV Battery Recycling I – 2nd Anniversary Edition
The Ostara Newsletter turns 2! Yes, this month marks the 25th monthly edition of “All about EVs”, a newsletter we launched in May 2021 to foster a conversation among investors about the Clean Mobility ecosystem in India. Little did we foresee the impact it would have and the number of people it would reach. It’s remarkable to note […]
The Digital Identity of EVs
We’ve all come across IoT (Internet of Things) in some form or the other in our daily lives like wearables that track our activity and fitness, navigating using GPS-tracking on our phone, smart toll-collection and many more… The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) defines IoT as a system of self-adaptive and complex networks […]
EV Retrofitting
Hello there! We’re back with another juicy edition of the Ostara newsletter! First up, a couple of quick Ostara updates… Ostara Updates! Now, for our topic for this month… India’s first large-scale CNG programme kickstarted in 1998, in Delhi, after the Supreme Court of India then issued several directives centred around the clean fuel. Since then, almost […]
