{"id":285328,"date":"2019-07-31T07:19:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T07:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=285328"},"modified":"2019-07-31T07:19:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T07:19:39","slug":"despite-push-government-departments-show-little-appetite-for-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/despite-push-government-departments-show-little-appetite-for-electric-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite push, government departments show little appetite for electric cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), which was tasked with procuring 10,000 electric cars for government departments by January 31 this year, has been granted a year\u2019s extension, owing to lack of demand for their deployment to replace diesel- and petrol-fuelled vehicles in existing fleets, according to the ministry of power.<\/p>\n<p>EESL, a joint venture company of state-owned firms under the power ministry, has finished the procurement process of 10,000 e-cars under the national e-mobility programme that was launched by the Centre in March 2018, although it hasn\u2019t taken delivery or paid for the cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), which was tasked with procuring 10,000 electric cars for government departments by January 31 this year, has been granted a year\u2019s extension, owing to lack of demand for their deployment to replace diesel- and petrol-fuelled vehicles in existing fleets, according to the ministry of power. EESL, a joint venture company of state-owned firms under the power ministry, has finished the procurement process of 10,000 e-cars under the national e-mobility programme that was launched by the Centre in March 2018, although it hasn\u2019t taken delivery or paid for the cars.<\/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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285328","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=285328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}