{"id":398706,"date":"2021-02-03T09:05:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T03:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=398706"},"modified":"2021-02-03T09:45:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T04:15:46","slug":"little-to-cheer-for-ev-segment-in-union-budget-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/little-to-cheer-for-ev-segment-in-union-budget-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Little to cheer for EV segment in Union Budget 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the run-up to the Union Budget 2021, there was hope that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman would make announcements about two aspects of the automobile industry \u2013 the vehicle scrappage policy and electric mobility. <\/p>\n<p>While a voluntary vehicle scrappage policy was announced, with details to come later, there was no announcement as far as electric vehicles are concerned. There was mention of a tax holiday for start-ups and considering there are EV start-ups, there might be a bit of cheer.  <\/p>\n<p>Chetan Maini, Chairman and Co-founder, SUN Mobility, said: \u201cWhen it comes to electric mobility, the main expectation was a firmer commitment from a policy standpoint by the government for accelerating e-mobility and enabling charging and battery swapping infrastructure in the country for the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the run-up to the Union Budget 2021, there was hope that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman would make announcements about two aspects of the automobile industry \u2013 the vehicle scrappage policy and electric mobility. While a voluntary vehicle scrappage policy was announced, with details to come later, there was no announcement as far as electric vehicles are concerned. There was mention of a tax holiday for start-ups and considering there are EV start-ups, there might be a bit of cheer. Chetan Maini, Chairman and Co-founder, SUN Mobility, said: \u201cWhen it comes to electric mobility, the main expectation was a firmer [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398706","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=398706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}