{"id":282049,"date":"2019-07-15T05:17:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282049"},"modified":"2019-07-15T05:17:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:17:26","slug":"government-may-not-relent-on-electric-vehicles-despite-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-may-not-relent-on-electric-vehicles-despite-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Government may not relent on electric vehicles despite opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government may not entertain the demands of automobile manufacturers to reconsider a proposed ban on two- and three-wheelers powered by internal combustion engines that would mark a shift to full electric mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Automakers fear the ban will impact an industry reeling under a demand slowdown and the massive investments made to upgrade to Bharat Stage-VI, or BS-VI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government should not resort to ban internal combustion engines and should allow the markets to develop. Banning of such vehicles will not achieve what the government wants. We need a longer horizon than 2025 to bring in electric vehicles (EVs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government may not entertain the demands of automobile manufacturers to reconsider a proposed ban on two- and three-wheelers powered by internal combustion engines that would mark a shift to full electric mobility. Automakers fear the ban will impact an industry reeling under a demand slowdown and the massive investments made to upgrade to Bharat Stage-VI, or BS-VI. \u201cThe government should not resort to ban internal combustion engines and should allow the markets to develop. Banning of such vehicles will not achieve what the government wants. We need a longer horizon than 2025 to bring in electric vehicles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282049","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}