{"id":368179,"date":"2020-08-17T12:14:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T06:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=368179"},"modified":"2020-08-17T13:05:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T07:35:39","slug":"industry-divided-over-sale-registration-of-evs-without-pre-fitted-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/industry-divided-over-sale-registration-of-evs-without-pre-fitted-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry divided over sale, registration of EVs without pre-fitted batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Govt\u2019s move to allow sale and registration of electric vehicles without pre-fitted batteries evoked mixed reaction from the EV industry on Thursday, with majority of two-wheeler makers welcoming it while Mahindra Electric said no country in the world allows such a system and the step has not been thought through. <\/p>\n<p>Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles , which has electric two- and three-wheeler makers as majority of its members, said the move to delink batteries from the EVs is a good idea but other steps like reducing GST on batteries from 18 per cent to 5 per cent need to be taken to make these vehicles more attractive for customers. <\/p>\n<p>Ather Energy, Hero Electric, Okinawa and Ampere Electric were unanimous that the government\u2019s move will lower the upfront cost that a consumer has to pay and thereby help in popularing EVs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Govt\u2019s move to allow sale and registration of electric vehicles without pre-fitted batteries evoked mixed reaction from the EV industry on Thursday, with majority of two-wheeler makers welcoming it while Mahindra Electric said no country in the world allows such a system and the step has not been thought through. Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles , which has electric two- and three-wheeler makers as majority of its members, said the move to delink batteries from the EVs is a good idea but other steps like reducing GST on batteries from 18 per cent to 5 per cent need [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368179","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=368179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}