I believe Electrovaya is working on a joint venture in India. The problem is to get the Indians to come up with a factory and pay the aprox $10Million for equipment. Electrovaya would throw in the license to manufacture and be a 50/50 partner. Hard bargain to get anyone to swallow. Probably why it is taking so long.
In regards to the Tata license, Licenses usually are for current technology and not future. So if Tata wants the Litarian separator, I would think they would need to either purchase or license... What they have now is really not great.. If the joint venture being negotiated is with Tata, they could also source the cell tower equipment fron the same factory. A lot to consider..