{"id":382261,"date":"2020-11-04T10:27:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T04:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=382261"},"modified":"2020-11-04T12:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T07:07:04","slug":"ola-plans-to-foray-into-electric-scooter-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ola-plans-to-foray-into-electric-scooter-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ola plans to foray into electric scooter manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ola, founded by Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati, plans to foray into electric scooter manufacturing, switching gears from being a taxi aggregator to a vehicle manufacturer. It is in talks with multiple state governments for 100 acres of unencumbered land on which it plans to build the world\u2019s largest e-scooter facility. <\/p>\n<p>Currently, Japanese major Honda operates the world\u2019s largest scooter manufacturing site in Gujarat, which turns out 1.2 million fossil fuel-powered vehicles a year. The move will pit the homegrown ride-hailing company, in which Hyundai has an investment, against Bajaj Auto, TVS and Hero MotoCorp-backed Ather Energy. <\/p>\n<p>Ola\u2019s India manufacturing plan follows its recent purchase of Netherlands-based Etergo, owner of the App Scooter electric brand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ola, founded by Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati, plans to foray into electric scooter manufacturing, switching gears from being a taxi aggregator to a vehicle manufacturer. It is in talks with multiple state governments for 100 acres of unencumbered land on which it plans to build the world\u2019s largest e-scooter facility. Currently, Japanese major Honda operates the world\u2019s largest scooter manufacturing site in Gujarat, which turns out 1.2 million fossil fuel-powered vehicles a year. The move will pit the homegrown ride-hailing company, in which Hyundai has an investment, against Bajaj Auto, TVS and Hero MotoCorp-backed Ather Energy. Ola\u2019s India manufacturing [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382261","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=382261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}