{"id":286919,"date":"2019-08-09T06:16:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T06:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=286919"},"modified":"2019-08-09T06:18:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T06:18:28","slug":"auto-industry-should-grab-ev-opportunity-rajiv-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/auto-industry-should-grab-ev-opportunity-rajiv-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto industry should grab EV opportunity: Rajiv Kumar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The auto sector\u2019s fears over electric vehicles (EVs) are misplaced, said NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar. Instead of seeing EVs as a threat, he urged the auto sector to grab the opportunity offered by this sunrise sector and emerge a global leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn any case, in the Electric Mobility announcement we have not included cars at all, we have not given a date, we have also not said what you are going to do,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>A miffed Kumar added, \u201cWhen we have said nothing as yet about four-wheelers and cars, it is a bit strange to constantly hear that the \u20b960,000 crore invested in shifting cars and other four-wheelers to BS VI and all this investment will go waste.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The auto sector\u2019s fears over electric vehicles (EVs) are misplaced, said NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar. Instead of seeing EVs as a threat, he urged the auto sector to grab the opportunity offered by this sunrise sector and emerge a global leader. \u201cIn any case, in the Electric Mobility announcement we have not included cars at all, we have not given a date, we have also not said what you are going to do,\u201d he stressed. A miffed Kumar added, \u201cWhen we have said nothing as yet about four-wheelers and cars, it is a bit strange to constantly hear that [&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-286919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286919","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=286919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}