{"id":295246,"date":"2019-10-07T11:23:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T05:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295246"},"modified":"2019-10-07T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T05:53:32","slug":"india-has-15-crore-drivers-and-only-8000-want-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-has-15-crore-drivers-and-only-8000-want-electric-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"India has 15 crore drivers and only 8,000 want electric cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Hyundai Motor Co. launched India\u2019s first electric SUV this summer with a quirky TV commercial urging millennials to \u201cDrive Into the Future.&#8221; A few months later, the automaker finds itself on a lonesome road.<\/p>\n<p>In a nation of about 150 million drivers, only 130 Kona SUVs were sold to dealers through August. That slow pace is emblematic of the difficulties carmakers face in establishing an electric foothold in the fourth-biggest auto market, even with committed government support.<\/p>\n<p>The Kona sells for about $35,000 while the average Indian earns about $2,000 a year \u2014 and the best-selling gas guzzler costs $4,000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Hyundai Motor Co. launched India\u2019s first electric SUV this summer with a quirky TV commercial urging millennials to \u201cDrive Into the Future.&#8221; A few months later, the automaker finds itself on a lonesome road. In a nation of about 150 million drivers, only 130 Kona SUVs were sold to dealers through August. That slow pace is emblematic of the difficulties carmakers face in establishing an electric foothold in the fourth-biggest auto market, even with committed government support. The Kona sells for about $35,000 while the average Indian earns about $2,000 a year \u2014 and the best-selling gas [&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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295246","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=295246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}