{"id":294234,"date":"2019-09-28T12:18:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T06:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=294234"},"modified":"2019-09-28T12:18:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T06:48:43","slug":"auroville-turns-model-to-go-off-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/auroville-turns-model-to-go-off-power-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Auroville turns model to go off power grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Puducherry: As most cities struggle to shift gears to electric vehicles, an experiment in the tiny township of Auroville near Puducherry is making a silent and sustainable statement on electric mobility.<br \/>\nA solar technology hub and a community committed to being eco-friendly, Auroville has been chosen for a unique experiment in green mobility that is independent of the power grid. The technology for the project is simple: Use a combination of solar power and battery storage packs to power street lights and charge e-vehicles used for public transport. As part of the project, Mahindra Electric, the e-mobility business of Mahindra &amp; Mahindra, is helping the Auroville community to make the change with 14kWh energy storage battery packs which will use a combination of solar and grid power.<br \/>\n&#8220;This concept is one of the ways ahead because of the kind of voltage generated by solar panels,&#8221; says Chetan Maini, pioneer of India\u2019s electric vehicle industry with the first desi e-car Reva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puducherry: As most cities struggle to shift gears to electric vehicles, an experiment in the tiny township of Auroville near Puducherry is making a silent and sustainable statement on electric mobility. A solar technology hub and a community committed to being eco-friendly, Auroville has been chosen for a unique experiment in green mobility that is independent of the power grid. The technology for the project is simple: Use a combination of solar power and battery storage packs to power street lights and charge e-vehicles used for public transport. As part of the project, Mahindra Electric, the e-mobility business of Mahindra [&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-294234","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\/294234","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=294234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}