{"id":438709,"date":"2021-09-28T10:52:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T05:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=438709"},"modified":"2021-09-28T11:45:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T06:15:37","slug":"pli-scheme-for-auto-sector-to-promote-electric-vehicles-needs-a-relook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pli-scheme-for-auto-sector-to-promote-electric-vehicles-needs-a-relook\/","title":{"rendered":"PLI Scheme for auto sector to promote electric vehicles needs a relook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government should have a relook at its recently announced automobile PLI scheme. Consider this: We Indians predominantly travel on two wheels. Two-wheelers accounted for 81 per cent of the domestic automobile market in 2019-20. In fact, India is the world\u2019s largest market for two-wheelers.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic market share in 2019-20:<\/p>\n<p>Passenger Vehicles: 13%<\/p>\n<p>Commercial Vehicles: 3%<\/p>\n<p>Three-wheelers: 3%<\/p>\n<p>Two-wheelers: 81%<\/p>\n<p>According to SIAM data, while the share of two-wheelers in the domestic automobile market in 2019-20 was 81%, passenger vehicles accounted for 13%, and three-wheelers and commercial vehicles 3% each. <\/p>\n<p>So, if we were looking to shift our vehicle fleet to EVs anytime soon, electric two-wheelers would have to play a large role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government should have a relook at its recently announced automobile PLI scheme. Consider this: We Indians predominantly travel on two wheels. Two-wheelers accounted for 81 per cent of the domestic automobile market in 2019-20. In fact, India is the world\u2019s largest market for two-wheelers. Domestic market share in 2019-20: Passenger Vehicles: 13% Commercial Vehicles: 3% Three-wheelers: 3% Two-wheelers: 81% According to SIAM data, while the share of two-wheelers in the domestic automobile market in 2019-20 was 81%, passenger vehicles accounted for 13%, and three-wheelers and commercial vehicles 3% each. So, if we were looking to shift our vehicle fleet [&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-438709","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\/438709","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=438709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}