{"id":278441,"date":"2019-06-13T06:47:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T06:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=278441"},"modified":"2019-06-13T06:56:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T06:56:33","slug":"two-wheeler-industry-against-rapid-electrification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/two-wheeler-industry-against-rapid-electrification\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-wheeler industry against rapid electrification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the launch of India\u2019s first scooter that meets Bharat Stage 6 emission norms, Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) Chief Executive Officer, Minoru Kato mentioned that the Japanese company, India\u2019s largest scooter manufacturer was \u2018putting on hold any further investment decisions until they got some clarity on the government\u2019s proposals around electrification of sub-150cc two-wheelers.\u2019 This is in light of a recent proposal in a report released by the Niti Ayog that has proposed that all sub-1500 two-wheelers in India get run on electricity by 2023. Kato made it clear that while electrification was the future, to moveto electric so soon after implementing new Bharat Stage 6 emission norms was not a wise move, \u201cWe and many of our suppliers have made very heavy investments in moving to BS6.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the launch of India\u2019s first scooter that meets Bharat Stage 6 emission norms, Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) Chief Executive Officer, Minoru Kato mentioned that the Japanese company, India\u2019s largest scooter manufacturer was \u2018putting on hold any further investment decisions until they got some clarity on the government\u2019s proposals around electrification of sub-150cc two-wheelers.\u2019 This is in light of a recent proposal in a report released by the Niti Ayog that has proposed that all sub-1500 two-wheelers in India get run on electricity by 2023. Kato made it clear that while electrification was the future, to moveto electric [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278441","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=278441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}