{"id":411638,"date":"2021-04-23T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411638"},"modified":"2021-04-23T11:06:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:36:39","slug":"electric-vehicle-sales-tumble-by-25-in-pandemic-stricken-fy21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electric-vehicle-sales-tumble-by-25-in-pandemic-stricken-fy21\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric vehicle sales tumble by 25% in pandemic-stricken FY21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicle (EV) sales declined by a quarter during the pandemic-stricken financial year ended 31 March despite a surge in sales in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>About 237,000 EVs were sold during FY21 \u2013 a 25% decline over FY20. EVs accounted for just 1.2% of the overall vehicle sales in the country with about 18.8 million vehicles with combustion engines sold during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>EV sales included about 143,800 electric two-wheelers, which is a decline of 6% over the previous year. Of these, 40,800 were in the high-speed category that requires registration with regional transport authorities. The remaining 103,000 were low-speed scooters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicle (EV) sales declined by a quarter during the pandemic-stricken financial year ended 31 March despite a surge in sales in recent months. About 237,000 EVs were sold during FY21 \u2013 a 25% decline over FY20. EVs accounted for just 1.2% of the overall vehicle sales in the country with about 18.8 million vehicles with combustion engines sold during the same period. EV sales included about 143,800 electric two-wheelers, which is a decline of 6% over the previous year. Of these, 40,800 were in the high-speed category that requires registration with regional transport authorities. The remaining 103,000 were low-speed [&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-411638","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\/411638","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=411638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}