The battery, designed to light up 30,000 homes if there is a blackout, will be built on a wind farm operated by France's Neoen - parts of which are still under construction."Lithium AmbitionsDozens of companies from 10 countries, including privately owned Lyon Group, working with U.Elon Musk proposed to build the gigantic lithium-ion battery that will serve as emergency back-up power for South Australia Tesla founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk Tesla Inc has won an Australian contract to install the world's biggest grid-scale battery, in what experts say will be a litmus test for the reliability of large-scale renewable energy..The battery is aimed at getting around the problem of inadequate storage.

Carmakers may spend an additional $6,500 per car when they launch fully autonomous vehicles, the Boston Consulting Group said in a report this year.."It's important for a supplier to be able to sell not just one single component but provide that entire platform," he said."There are two trends: the car becomes a connected software device, and the entire mobile and ICT ecosystem is getting very interested in playing a part in that evolution," Bonte said.Unlike Apple and Google, there is no clear sign yet that Samsung is developing its own autonomous driving technology.The growth prospects are mouthwatering.Data compiled by Thomson Reuters IP & Science shows the world's top smartphone maker and other Samsung Group tech affiliates are ramping up research and development for auto technology, with two-thirds of their combined 1,804 US patent filings related to electric vehicles and electric components for cars coming since 2010.Samsung insiders acknowledge, however, that it may take several years before tech arms other than Samsung SDI generate significant auto-related sales.A decade after selling its debt-laden carmaking unit to Renault, Samsung Group in 2010 announced its second foray into the auto industry, identifying car batteries as one of its five growth businesses.Its Samsung SDI Co Ltd is now the world's No.1 billion in revenue.Samsung is arriving late at a party where some of the best partners are already taken (Representational Image) Samsung is arriving late at a party where some of the best partners are already taken Seoul: Samsung Electronics and group companies are trying a belated push into the business of supplying technology to carmakers, while rivals are already sewing up lucrative deals with an industry that is notoriously difficult to break into.That is particularly welcome as demand for smartphones, TVs and computers slows, but Samsung is arriving late at a party where some of the best partners are already taken.Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd recently formed a dedicated team to sell components such as camera modules to new auto clients and says it would consider acquisitions to boost car-related businesses.Analysts say the supply relationships built by SDI could be expanded by bundling parts and services from other Samsung arms.IHS analyst Danny Kim said Samsung Group does not yet have a unified, group-wide approach to building its supplier presence in the industry."Samsung needs a serious commitment to drive the synergies between all competent organisations within Samsung Group," he said. It took the better part of a # decade for Nvidia to gain acceptance as a global supplier, while LG worked with GM for nearly a decade before it got its supply contract for the Chrevrolet Bolt.Product development cycles in the auto industry are far longer than in consumer electronics, and carmakers are cautious about adding suppliers without a track record.In the huntOther parts of the Samsung empire are now in the hunt.ABI's Bonte said Samsung could also speed things up by acquiring established players such as Japan's Renesas Electronics Corp, which researcher Gartner says was the world's top auto semiconductor maker last year, with $3.Nvidia says its autos revenue was $148 million for the first half of this fiscal year, nearly doubling in a year