{"id":428565,"date":"2021-08-02T11:02:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428565"},"modified":"2021-08-02T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:32:17","slug":"charged-up-pes-vcs-pump-big-money-into-electric-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/charged-up-pes-vcs-pump-big-money-into-electric-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Charged up: PEs &amp; VCs pump big money into electric vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Private equity firms and venture capitalists are betting big on the electric vehicle (EV) and allied sectors, on expected higher traction for alternative fuels and a demand upswing in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Investment activity in the EV space jumped after Japan\u2019s SoftBank Vision Fund said in 2019 that it would invest $265 million in Ola Electric, ride hailing company Ola\u2019s EV arm that is setting up an EV manufacturing facility in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private equity firms and venture capitalists are betting big on the electric vehicle (EV) and allied sectors, on expected higher traction for alternative fuels and a demand upswing in the country. Investment activity in the EV space jumped after Japan\u2019s SoftBank Vision Fund said in 2019 that it would invest $265 million in Ola Electric, ride hailing company Ola\u2019s EV arm that is setting up an EV manufacturing facility in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu.<\/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-428565","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\/428565","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=428565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}