{"id":433445,"date":"2021-09-01T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T05:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=433445"},"modified":"2021-09-01T12:15:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T06:45:46","slug":"costlier-fuel-drives-buyers-towards-cng-car-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/costlier-fuel-drives-buyers-towards-cng-car-variants\/","title":{"rendered":"Costlier fuel drives buyers towards CNG car variants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With few electric options in the market and affordability a major hurdle for EV ownership in India, the rising fuel prices over the last one year seem to have nudged car buyers towards the CNG variants. Market leader Maruti Suzuki India Limited has seen a sharp rise in sale of CNG variants over the last four years, taking its share from 4.6 per cent of the total cars sold in FY18 to 17.2 per cent in the first four months of FY22.<\/p>\n<p>While the company sold 75,000 CNG variants (4.6 per cent of its total sales) in FY18, the sales of the CNG variants went up to 1.63 lakh units (11.5 per cent of its total sales) in the year ended March 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With few electric options in the market and affordability a major hurdle for EV ownership in India, the rising fuel prices over the last one year seem to have nudged car buyers towards the CNG variants. Market leader Maruti Suzuki India Limited has seen a sharp rise in sale of CNG variants over the last four years, taking its share from 4.6 per cent of the total cars sold in FY18 to 17.2 per cent in the first four months of FY22. While the company sold 75,000 CNG variants (4.6 per cent of its total sales) in FY18, the sales [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433445","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=433445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}