{"id":411247,"date":"2021-04-19T10:54:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T05:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411247"},"modified":"2021-04-19T12:28:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T06:58:27","slug":"indias-electric-mobility-ambitions-face-practical-technical-hurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-electric-mobility-ambitions-face-practical-technical-hurdles\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s electric mobility ambitions face practical, technical hurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H.S. Panno, an independent contractor living in a spacious two-story penthouse in New Delhi, had his doubts when he bought his first electric car in September.<\/p>\n<p>So far, he&#8217;s pleased with his savings on gas and maintenance, which are down by more than half, but disappointed with the practical limitations of driving his Nexon XZ+. For starters, he says he&#8217;s only getting 200 kilometers (125 miles) per charge, not the promised range of 315 kilometers (195 miles). And he can&#8217;t drive the car outside the city because of a lack of charging stations. <\/p>\n<p>EVs are a rarity in India, where more than 300 million vehicles, most of them scooters and three-wheel motorized rickshaws, jam the highways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H.S. Panno, an independent contractor living in a spacious two-story penthouse in New Delhi, had his doubts when he bought his first electric car in September. So far, he&#8217;s pleased with his savings on gas and maintenance, which are down by more than half, but disappointed with the practical limitations of driving his Nexon XZ+. For starters, he says he&#8217;s only getting 200 kilometers (125 miles) per charge, not the promised range of 315 kilometers (195 miles). And he can&#8217;t drive the car outside the city because of a lack of charging stations. EVs are a rarity in India, where [&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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411247","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=411247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}