This Committee was mandated by the Finance Minister to give a report outlining a roadmap
for fiscal consolidation in a medium term framework in pursuit of the FRBM Act and related
targets. The Committee was expected to complete this task by the end of August. The Committee met several times to deliberate these issues. During our discussions, the Secretary of each department of the Finance Ministry and the Chief Economic Advisor gave us the benefit of their valuable views. Similarly, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Department of Fertilizer give their inputs. The Budget Division and Economic Division of the Ministry of Finance assisted the Committee in all its deliberations. While all the data were provided by the Budget and Economic Divisions, we take responsibility for our analysis and projections.
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It is a fact that electric vehicles (EVs) are beneficial for climate protection. However, the current challenge is to decide on whether to reuse an EV battery or to recycle it after its first use. This paper theoretically investigates these areas i.e., recycle and reuse. It was found that there are several commercially used recycling processes and also some are under research to regain maximum possible materials and quantity. The concept of reusing (second life) of the battery is promising because, at the end of the first life, batteries from EVs can be used in several applications such as storing energy generated from renewable sources to support the government grid. However, the cost and life-cycle analysis (LCA) demonstrated that there are several aspects involved in battery reuse applications. Henceforth, one LCA generalised method cannot provide an optimal approach for all cases. It is important to have a detailed study on each of the battery reusing applications. Until then, it is safe to say that reusing the battery is a good option as it would give some time to recycling companies to develop cost and energy-efficient methods.
