{"id":431126,"date":"2021-08-17T11:31:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T06:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431126"},"modified":"2021-08-17T13:01:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T07:31:12","slug":"pe-vc-funds-in-electric-vehicle-sector-up-3x-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pe-vc-funds-in-electric-vehicle-sector-up-3x-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"PE-VC funds in electric vehicle sector up 3x this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The Indian electric vehicle (EV) sector has caught the eye of local and global investors. The surge in interest comes on the back of supportive government policies, increasing awareness of the importance of sustainability, and rising petrol prices. <\/p>\n<p>The year 2021 has already recorded 11 investment deals worth $519 million in the sector compared to 13 investments of $165 million value in entire 2020, and 22 deals worth $490 million in 2019, according to data from Venture Intelligence (see graphic). The deals are across the value chain in electric mobility \u2014 from battery makers to energy storage to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The investment tally includes renewable energy companies Fourth Partner Energy and Fortum that also operate in the electric mobility space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The Indian electric vehicle (EV) sector has caught the eye of local and global investors. The surge in interest comes on the back of supportive government policies, increasing awareness of the importance of sustainability, and rising petrol prices. The year 2021 has already recorded 11 investment deals worth $519 million in the sector compared to 13 investments of $165 million value in entire 2020, and 22 deals worth $490 million in 2019, according to data from Venture Intelligence (see graphic). The deals are across the value chain in electric mobility \u2014 from battery makers to energy storage to original [&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-431126","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\/431126","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=431126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}