{"id":417081,"date":"2021-05-27T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417081"},"modified":"2021-05-27T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T05:51:09","slug":"convert-300-million-on-road-vehicles-to-run-on-clean-fuels-for-tangible-air-quality-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/convert-300-million-on-road-vehicles-to-run-on-clean-fuels-for-tangible-air-quality-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert 300 million on-road vehicles to run on clean fuels for tangible air quality impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 300 million vehicles currently run on polluting liquid fuels in India, contributing to its status as home to 22 of the world&#8217;s 30-most polluted cities, the Indian Auto LPG Coalition said on Wednesday stressing that these need to be converted to the ones running on clean fuels, for any tangible air quality impact. &#8220;With mass adoption of electric vehicles still a distant future, an absence of a near-term strategy to convert existing vehicles to cleaner alternatives is a crucial policy oversight,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Auto LPG Coalition (IAC), apex body of Auto LPG stakeholders in India, said the government&#8217;s indifference towards immediately available clean alternative fuels is proving to be a major health bane for the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 300 million vehicles currently run on polluting liquid fuels in India, contributing to its status as home to 22 of the world&#8217;s 30-most polluted cities, the Indian Auto LPG Coalition said on Wednesday stressing that these need to be converted to the ones running on clean fuels, for any tangible air quality impact. &#8220;With mass adoption of electric vehicles still a distant future, an absence of a near-term strategy to convert existing vehicles to cleaner alternatives is a crucial policy oversight,&#8221; it said in a statement. The Indian Auto LPG Coalition (IAC), apex body of Auto LPG stakeholders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-417081","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\/417081","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}