{"id":380457,"date":"2020-10-26T08:38:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T03:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=380457"},"modified":"2020-10-26T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T03:35:48","slug":"private-sector-yet-to-charge-up-on-electric-vehicle-infrastructure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/private-sector-yet-to-charge-up-on-electric-vehicle-infrastructure-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Private sector yet to charge up on electric vehicle infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre\u2019s decision to invite proposals for setting up and operating electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure across 18 major highways may be a move to promote such installations but whether such a business is independently viable is yet to be established. <\/p>\n<p>A senior executive in one of the auto fuel retailing companies said setting up e-charging stations independently was not viable at this juncture and battery swapping with standardisation was a better option. <\/p>\n<p>While those considering foray into the e-charging business feel that the number of EVs running on the road do not provide adequate numbers to put up charging stations, the manufacturers see lack of such stations as a dampener for sale of these low-emission automobiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre\u2019s decision to invite proposals for setting up and operating electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure across 18 major highways may be a move to promote such installations but whether such a business is independently viable is yet to be established. A senior executive in one of the auto fuel retailing companies said setting up e-charging stations independently was not viable at this juncture and battery swapping with standardisation was a better option. While those considering foray into the e-charging business feel that the number of EVs running on the road do not provide adequate numbers to put up charging [&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-380457","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\/380457","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=380457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}