{"id":283466,"date":"2019-07-20T06:51:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T06:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=283466"},"modified":"2019-07-20T06:51:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T06:51:47","slug":"solar-rickshaws-make-debut-on-iit-delhi-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-rickshaws-make-debut-on-iit-delhi-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar rickshaws make debut on IIT-Delhi campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Suresh Kumar has been pedalling people at IIT-Delhi since 2002. But now a solar-powered hybrid rickshaw will make his job less burdensome.<br \/>\nCentral Electronics Limited (CEL), a central government enterprise that has decided to give these vehicles to the rickshaw-pullers at IIT Delhi under a corporate social responsibility initiative, handed over 10 such rickshaws, which will ply on the campus.<br \/>\nCEL has designed and manufactured specialised 300-Watt solar panels to be used as the roof of the rickshaws. \u201cThese panels, charging throughout the day, will effectively double the distance that the rickshaws can cover in a day. Hence, it will not only reduce the physical effort of the rickshaw pullers but also help them earn more,\u201d an official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Suresh Kumar has been pedalling people at IIT-Delhi since 2002. But now a solar-powered hybrid rickshaw will make his job less burdensome. Central Electronics Limited (CEL), a central government enterprise that has decided to give these vehicles to the rickshaw-pullers at IIT Delhi under a corporate social responsibility initiative, handed over 10 such rickshaws, which will ply on the campus. CEL has designed and manufactured specialised 300-Watt solar panels to be used as the roof of the rickshaws. \u201cThese panels, charging throughout the day, will effectively double the distance that the rickshaws can cover in a day. Hence, [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283466","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=283466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}