{"id":427714,"date":"2021-07-27T11:07:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T05:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=427714"},"modified":"2021-07-27T13:09:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T07:39:06","slug":"bests-electric-footprint-to-rise-to-15-with-100-double-deckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bests-electric-footprint-to-rise-to-15-with-100-double-deckers\/","title":{"rendered":"BEST\u2019s electric footprint to rise to 15% with 100 double-deckers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Expect 12% of BEST\u2019s 3,300 buses to be electric by the year-end, when it will have 380 e-buses. To boost the e-move, the undertaking decided on Monday to procure 100 new e-double deckers, which could push the electric footprint to 15% (nearly 500 e-buses) by early 2022. <\/p>\n<p>BEST general manager Lokesh Chandra on Monday announced that the undertaking wants to scrap its plan of procuring diesel double-deckers and will go instead for \u2018pure electric\u2019 twin-deck buses. <\/p>\n<p>The iconic double-deckers have been popular among Mumbaikars for decades, but its fleet shrunk lately from 120 a few years back to 48. Twenty-eight more could be phased out in the coming months as they complete their lifespan, sources said. BEST is in a hurry to get new twin-deck buses so that it maintains the double-decker fleet at 120.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Expect 12% of BEST\u2019s 3,300 buses to be electric by the year-end, when it will have 380 e-buses. To boost the e-move, the undertaking decided on Monday to procure 100 new e-double deckers, which could push the electric footprint to 15% (nearly 500 e-buses) by early 2022. BEST general manager Lokesh Chandra on Monday announced that the undertaking wants to scrap its plan of procuring diesel double-deckers and will go instead for \u2018pure electric\u2019 twin-deck buses. The iconic double-deckers have been popular among Mumbaikars for decades, but its fleet shrunk lately from 120 a few years back to 48. [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427714","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=427714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}