{"id":273008,"date":"2019-05-06T05:11:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273008"},"modified":"2019-05-06T05:21:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:21:09","slug":"how-rampant-theft-of-electricity-could-drain-indias-electric-car-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-rampant-theft-of-electricity-could-drain-indias-electric-car-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"How rampant theft of electricity could drain India&#8217;s electric car hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dirty air has finally become an issue in Indian election manifestos, along with perennial subjects such as temple-building and farmers\u2019 incomes. <\/p>\n<p>That shouldn\u2019t be a surprise: Even politicians can\u2019t escape air pollution, which has reduced life expectancy in areas near the capital New Delhi by more than 12 years. <\/p>\n<p>To address the issue, the government earlier this year laid out a three-year subsidy program for electric vehicles valued at about $1.4 billion \u2014 about 10 times larger than a previous plan. There\u2019s just one flaw in this impressive-looking commitment to putting more clean-energy vehicles on the roads: It\u2019s likely to exacerbate rampant theft of electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dirty air has finally become an issue in Indian election manifestos, along with perennial subjects such as temple-building and farmers\u2019 incomes. That shouldn\u2019t be a surprise: Even politicians can\u2019t escape air pollution, which has reduced life expectancy in areas near the capital New Delhi by more than 12 years. To address the issue, the government earlier this year laid out a three-year subsidy program for electric vehicles valued at about $1.4 billion \u2014 about 10 times larger than a previous plan. There\u2019s just one flaw in this impressive-looking commitment to putting more clean-energy vehicles on the roads: It\u2019s likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}