{"id":276009,"date":"2019-05-25T05:32:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T05:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=276009"},"modified":"2019-05-25T05:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T05:32:28","slug":"kerala-floats-e-bus-tenders-eyes-centres-subsidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kerala-floats-e-bus-tenders-eyes-centres-subsidy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala floats e-bus tenders, eyes Centre\u2019s subsidy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Goa and Delhi, Kerala government has joined the race to dip from Centre\u2019s `4,500-crore FAME-2 ( Faster Adoption &amp; Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles) subsidy pool. The state\u2019s public transport entity KSRTC has floated tenders to lease 1,500 electric buses for 10 years. Earlier, Kerala had started e-bus service but failed to sustain the lease rate of `43.20 per km. \u201cOnce the central subsidy is in place, this rent rate can be tightbelted to a rate below `30 per km, making the e-bus commercially viable,\u201d MP Dinesh, MD, KSRTC told FE.<\/p>\n<p>The state transport PSU had not gone for the Centre\u2019s subsidy during its first tryst with e-bus. FAME-1 was wound up by the time KSRTC got around applying for it. Ten e-buses, leased from Mahavoyage, are currently idling in KSRTC stables, after they bled the ailing state PSU by incurring the loss of `1 lakh per day. With battery running out often, the state\u2019s e-bus experiment was hardly successful, said R Sasidharan, secretary of transport union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Goa and Delhi, Kerala government has joined the race to dip from Centre\u2019s `4,500-crore FAME-2 ( Faster Adoption &amp; Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles) subsidy pool. The state\u2019s public transport entity KSRTC has floated tenders to lease 1,500 electric buses for 10 years. Earlier, Kerala had started e-bus service but failed to sustain the lease rate of `43.20 per km. \u201cOnce the central subsidy is in place, this rent rate can be tightbelted to a rate below `30 per km, making the e-bus commercially viable,\u201d MP Dinesh, MD, KSRTC told FE. The state transport PSU had not gone for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276009","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}