A battery pack is not just cells.
It is cells plus a circuit board that watches every one of them, balances the charge between them, tracks temperature, and cuts the pack off before anything goes wrong.
That board is the battery management system, and it is the difference between a pack that lasts years and one that fails or catches fire.
India has been assembling battery packs at scale for a decade, and importing most of those boards.
That leaves assemblers dependent on a foreign supplier for the one part that decides safety, unable to change the firmware, and stuck waiting on shipping whenever something goes wrong. was founded in Hyderabad in August 2024 to make them in India.
