{"id":284940,"date":"2019-07-29T06:49:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T06:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=284940"},"modified":"2019-07-29T06:49:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T06:49:18","slug":"india-has-game-plan-for-electric-vehicles-amitabh-kant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-has-game-plan-for-electric-vehicles-amitabh-kant\/","title":{"rendered":"India has game plan for electric vehicles: Amitabh Kant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has put in place a game plan for electric vehicles (EV) and its components like batteries to ensure clean cities, reduce imports and utilise solar power, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said here on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He said domestic battery manufacturing for electric vehicles provides a \u201cmassive market opportunity\u201d, and also quickens the transition to such environment-friendly transport, which is vital for the country to help combat pollution, congestion, strengthen energy security and create jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a conference on sustainable mobility through video link, Kant said the country\u2019s EV focus should mainly be on two-wheeler and three-wheeler vehicles and public transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has put in place a game plan for electric vehicles (EV) and its components like batteries to ensure clean cities, reduce imports and utilise solar power, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said here on Saturday. He said domestic battery manufacturing for electric vehicles provides a \u201cmassive market opportunity\u201d, and also quickens the transition to such environment-friendly transport, which is vital for the country to help combat pollution, congestion, strengthen energy security and create jobs. Addressing a conference on sustainable mobility through video link, Kant said the country\u2019s EV focus should mainly be on two-wheeler and three-wheeler vehicles and public [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284940","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=284940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}