{"id":429310,"date":"2021-08-06T09:21:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T03:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429310"},"modified":"2021-08-06T10:21:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T04:51:23","slug":"not-plug-and-play-amazon-flipkart-struggle-to-meet-ev-goal-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/not-plug-and-play-amazon-flipkart-struggle-to-meet-ev-goal-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Not plug and play&#8217;: Amazon, Flipkart struggle to meet EV goal in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sourabh Saini, a delivery driver for Indian online supermarket BigBasket, is thrilled by the attention he gets as he zips around Noida, a satellite city on the outskirts of Delhi, in his three-wheeled electric van. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like how my electric van always gets noticed,\u201d said Saini, who made the switch from fossil fuels about eight months ago as part of BigBasket\u2019s push to electrify 90% of its fleet. \u201cCustomers are surprised at how silent it is. They get curious about my experience of driving an EV and start asking about its price and range.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>That makes him somewhat of a novelty in India, where BigBasket and online giants Amazon.com Inc. and Flipkart &#8212; who could hold the key to getting more gas-guzzlers off India\u2019s roads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourabh Saini, a delivery driver for Indian online supermarket BigBasket, is thrilled by the attention he gets as he zips around Noida, a satellite city on the outskirts of Delhi, in his three-wheeled electric van. \u201cI like how my electric van always gets noticed,\u201d said Saini, who made the switch from fossil fuels about eight months ago as part of BigBasket\u2019s push to electrify 90% of its fleet. \u201cCustomers are surprised at how silent it is. They get curious about my experience of driving an EV and start asking about its price and range.\u201d That makes him somewhat of a [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429310","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=429310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}