{"id":407110,"date":"2021-03-26T08:42:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T03:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=407110"},"modified":"2021-03-26T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T03:56:11","slug":"ev-start-ups-feel-the-spark-of-recovery-kick-start-post-pandemic-biz-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ev-start-ups-feel-the-spark-of-recovery-kick-start-post-pandemic-biz-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"EV start-ups feel the spark of recovery, kick-start post-pandemic biz plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though electric vehicles are clearly the flavour of these climate-change challenged times, Covid-19 infected sales, just as it did with conventional automobiles. This pandemic-induced slowdown, when business growth was virtually zero, presented challenges not just for e-vehicle makers but also the many start-ups that had developed within the ecosystem to provide a range of services \u2014 from funding and research facilities to taxi fleet operations and battery-charging services. How are they doing with the recovery? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe past 12 months have posed the toughest challenges for the entire urban mobility sector. It challenged the viability and health of urban mobility across the sector irrespective of the segment, whether B2C or the scooter segment or ride-sharing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though electric vehicles are clearly the flavour of these climate-change challenged times, Covid-19 infected sales, just as it did with conventional automobiles. This pandemic-induced slowdown, when business growth was virtually zero, presented challenges not just for e-vehicle makers but also the many start-ups that had developed within the ecosystem to provide a range of services \u2014 from funding and research facilities to taxi fleet operations and battery-charging services. How are they doing with the recovery? \u201cThe past 12 months have posed the toughest challenges for the entire urban mobility sector. It challenged the viability and health of urban mobility across [&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-407110","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\/407110","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=407110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}