{"id":437685,"date":"2021-09-23T08:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T03:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=437685"},"modified":"2021-09-23T09:48:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T04:18:56","slug":"india-must-end-petrol-two-wheelers-by-2027-e-scooter-firm-hero-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-must-end-petrol-two-wheelers-by-2027-e-scooter-firm-hero-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"India must end petrol two-wheelers by 2027: e-scooter firm Hero Electric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s biggest electric-scooter maker has called for the nation to end sales of gasoline-powered two wheelers by 2027 to speed up a switch to clean vehicles that has fallen behind other countries like China. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c2027 would be a good time for new sales to be 100% electric,\u201d Naveen Munjal, managing director of Hero Electric Vehicles Pvt., said in an interview. \u201cIf we leave it to market forces then things come along at their own pace and the transition will be much slower than what it could be.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s shift to electric vehicles has been hampered by high prices and a lack of charging infrastructure. Whereas China accounts for 97% of the world\u2019s e-scooter fleet, they make up less than 1% of total sales in India, according to BloombergNEF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s biggest electric-scooter maker has called for the nation to end sales of gasoline-powered two wheelers by 2027 to speed up a switch to clean vehicles that has fallen behind other countries like China. \u201c2027 would be a good time for new sales to be 100% electric,\u201d Naveen Munjal, managing director of Hero Electric Vehicles Pvt., said in an interview. \u201cIf we leave it to market forces then things come along at their own pace and the transition will be much slower than what it could be.\u201d India\u2019s shift to electric vehicles has been hampered by high prices and 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-437685","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\/437685","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=437685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}