British Indian entrepreneur Sanjeev Gupta to break Tesla’s record for world’s biggest battery

• Keerthi Mohan
• 20 March, 2018

By: Keerthi Mohan

Indian-born British businessman Sanjeev Gupta may soon hold the honour of building the world’s most powerful lithium-ion battery. The honour currently belongs to Elon Musk’s Tesla. Gupta, says Techradar, has plans to build a 120 megawatt/140 megawatt-hour battery, beating out the 100 megawatt/129 megawatt-hour battery by Tesla in South Australia. The billionaire is planning to build the battery at Port Augusta in South Australia. The need for a powerful battery arose after Gupta bought a steelworks in Whyalla, South Australia, last year. He intends to power it with a 200-megawatt solar farm, which will be constructed by Gupta’s GFG Alliance’s clean…

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