Kochi: Kerala Electrical & Allied Engineering Co. Ltd. (KEL) is in discussion with Toshiba to manufacture fast charging lithium ion (lion) batteries for electrical vehicles. The Toshiba team from Japan visited the Mamala unit of KEL on Tuesday.

“We are keen to collaborate with Toshiba to assemble li-ion batteries of different capacities of various types of electrical vehicles, boats, etc. We have shown our facility to team and have also shown the vacant land available at the unit which is suitable for establishing electric battery assembling unit the delegation.” said Shaji M Varghese, MD of KEL