{"id":397720,"date":"2021-01-29T08:48:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T03:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=397720"},"modified":"2021-01-29T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T04:20:12","slug":"gadkari-asks-ev-makers-to-shift-towards-indigenous-battery-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gadkari-asks-ev-makers-to-shift-towards-indigenous-battery-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadkari asks EV makers to shift towards indigenous battery technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday asked the EV industry to shift towards indigenous battery technologies.<\/p>\n<p>With electric vehicles (EVs) fast becoming the new reality, Road Transport &amp; Highways Minister Gadkari has stressed on the need to emerge as pioneers in developing leading battery and power-train technologies, as per a statement from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, the ministry said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Noting that the challenge we presently face is the control on strategic reserves of Lithium, which is used to manufacture Lithium-ion rechargeable batteries used in vehicles, the minister has called upon the EV sector to shift towards a completely indigenous battery technology in the coming years,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday asked the EV industry to shift towards indigenous battery technologies. With electric vehicles (EVs) fast becoming the new reality, Road Transport &amp; Highways Minister Gadkari has stressed on the need to emerge as pioneers in developing leading battery and power-train technologies, as per a statement from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, the ministry said in a statement. &#8220;Noting that the challenge we presently face is the control on strategic reserves of Lithium, which is used to manufacture Lithium-ion rechargeable batteries used in vehicles, the minister has called upon the EV sector to [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397720","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=397720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}