{"id":309800,"date":"2020-01-10T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T05:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309800"},"modified":"2020-01-10T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T05:24:05","slug":"shared-mobility-will-be-the-base-of-ev-plan-says-mms-pawan-goenka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/shared-mobility-will-be-the-base-of-ev-plan-says-mms-pawan-goenka\/","title":{"rendered":"Shared mobility will be the base of EV plan, says M&amp;M&#8217;s Pawan Goenka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Automobile entity Mahindra &amp; Mahindra says shared mobility will be the base of its electric mobility plan. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is in tune with government policy. The company is working with state governments and fleet operators to make electric mobility viable. Mahindra now has 22,000-23,000 electric vehicles (EVs) on ground,\u201d said Pawan Goenka, managing director. <\/p>\n<p>EVs, believes the company, can take off faster in the shared mobility segment.<\/p>\n<p>Goenka also notes many states have started procuring electric buses, with at least 4,000 of these to on the road this year. Mahindra Electric has been in partnership with electric fleet provider Lithium Urban for five years, covering 100 million e-kms, it says, in the Bengaluru-based startup&#8217;s fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Goenka says Mahindra is also looking to electrify radio taxi operator Meru\u2019s fleet, although there is no deadline. Mahindra acquired a 55 per cent majority stake in Meru during September 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automobile entity Mahindra &amp; Mahindra says shared mobility will be the base of its electric mobility plan. &#8220;This is in tune with government policy. The company is working with state governments and fleet operators to make electric mobility viable. Mahindra now has 22,000-23,000 electric vehicles (EVs) on ground,\u201d said Pawan Goenka, managing director. EVs, believes the company, can take off faster in the shared mobility segment. Goenka also notes many states have started procuring electric buses, with at least 4,000 of these to on the road this year. Mahindra Electric has been in partnership with electric fleet provider Lithium Urban [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309800","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=309800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}