{"id":431977,"date":"2021-08-25T11:32:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T06:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431977"},"modified":"2021-08-25T11:32:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T06:02:45","slug":"maruti-suzuki-not-entering-ev-segment-in-the-short-term-rc-bhargava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/maruti-suzuki-not-entering-ev-segment-in-the-short-term-rc-bhargava\/","title":{"rendered":"Maruti Suzuki not entering EV segment in the short term: RC Bhargava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki NSE -0.11 %, will not enter electric vehicles in the short term and will enter \u201conly when it is feasible\u201d to sell reasonable numbers, chairman R C Bhargava told shareholders at the company\u2019s 40th annual general meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Bhargava said the government&#8217;s focus is on the electrification of two-wheelers at present, where companies like Hero Electric and Ola have been focusing on product interventions. In the passenger vehicles segment, a few manufacturers have brought EVs, &#8220;but the sales volume is minimal, and it has had no impact on the market share of Maruti Suzuki,&#8221; Bhargava said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki NSE -0.11 %, will not enter electric vehicles in the short term and will enter \u201conly when it is feasible\u201d to sell reasonable numbers, chairman R C Bhargava told shareholders at the company\u2019s 40th annual general meeting. Bhargava said the government&#8217;s focus is on the electrification of two-wheelers at present, where companies like Hero Electric and Ola have been focusing on product interventions. In the passenger vehicles segment, a few manufacturers have brought EVs, &#8220;but the sales volume is minimal, and it has had no impact on the market share of Maruti Suzuki,&#8221; Bhargava [&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-431977","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\/431977","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=431977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}