Technology Hotbed · Energy
Battery Recycling
Data as of 11 Oct 2026Methodology
Momentum: ▲ Rising
Across fully-published filing years - the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
152
Patents
12
Startups matched
46
Foreign filers
Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Startups working on battery recycling
Deep-tech startups with a patent tagged this technology
BATX ENERGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
Gurugram · Energy
LOHUM MATERIALS PRIVATE LIMITED
East Delhi · Energy
JOL Energy
Tiruppur · Energy
MINIMINES CLEANTECH SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
Bengaluru Rural · Energy
CALICHE PRIVATE LIMITED
East Khasi Hills · Energy
Evergreen Recyclekaro India Pvt. Ltd.
Navi Mumbai · Energy
Green Era Recyclers
Coimbatore · Agri & Food
HYDROMET TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
Vadodara · Materials & Nanotech
METASTABLE MATERIALS PRIVATE LIMITED
Baghpat · Materials & Nanotech
Ramesh Kumar
New Delhi · Computing & AI
TVASTRA INNOTECH SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
Tumakuru · Health & Life Sciences
VERDEEN CHEMICALS PRIVATE LIMITED
Ghaziabad · Materials & Nanotech
A sample of matched deep-tech startups - Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Deep-tech basis: site-backed (own website fetched and read), IP-backed (patent or design filed in its own name), web-backed (described elsewhere on the open web), registry only (registry description alone). How this is decided
Where it clusters
Matched startups by state
| State | Startups mapped |
|---|---|
| Tamil Nadu | 4 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3 |
| Karnataka | 2 |
| Delhi | 2 |
| Punjab | 1 |
| Rajasthan | 1 |
| Meghalaya | 1 |
| Gujarat | 1 |
| Haryana | 1 |
| Bihar | 1 |
See battery recycling on the India map → Where its patents are filed, state by state and city by city, with companies, institutes and individual inventors apart.
Filing momentum
Filings by year - recent years still publishing
| Year | Filings | Foreign |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 22 | 11 |
| 2023 | 36 | 23 |
| 2024 | 40 | 27 |
| 2025 | 42 | 31 |
| 2026partial | 10 | 6 |
Patents publish ~18 months after they're filed, so the current year is always incomplete. The Rising / Steady / Cooling signal ignores it and compares only fully-published years - read a dip in the latest year as data still coming in, not a decline.
Who's filing
Indian companies lead - institutes & foreign kept separate
- ATTERO RECYCLINGIN · 7
- BATX ENERGIESIN · 6
- LOHUM MATERIALSIN · 3
- LOHUM CLEANTECHIN · 3
- MINIMINES CLEANTECH SOLUTIONSIN · 2
- JOL ENERGYIN · 2
Educational institutes (6) - ranked by grant rate (share of filings granted, sample-adjusted), not filing volume
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KHARAGPUR2 of 2 granted
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY1 of 1 granted
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY TIRUCHIRAPPALLI1 of 1 granted
- BANASTHALI VIDYAPITH0 of 1 granted
- BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE BITS PILANI0 of 1 granted
- CHHATRAPATI SHAHU JI MAHARAJ UNIVERSITY0 of 1 granted
Top inventors in this technology
The most prolific inventors filing in this technology, each linking to their full patent history.
Briefings on this technology
tech brief
India's Energy Sector Looks 97% China-Free. Its Batteries Are 75% Chinese.
Energy is India's least China-dependent sector at 2.8%, until you look at lithium-ion cells, which run 75.2% Chinese. It's the one sector where patents, startups and capital point the right way.
tech brief
India’s Battery Recycling Innovation: Turning Black Mass into High-Purity Metals
India’s innovators are rethinking battery recycling—recovering lithium, cobalt, nickel, and graphite from spent cells while tackling impurities and safety. The shift to urban mining is unlocking new v