{"id":447541,"date":"2021-11-05T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447541"},"modified":"2021-11-05T12:08:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T06:38:39","slug":"delhis-electric-car-subsidy-ends-next-focus-on-2-wheelers-and-public-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhis-electric-car-subsidy-ends-next-focus-on-2-wheelers-and-public-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi&#8217;s electric car subsidy ends; next focus on 2-wheelers and public transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi government has stopped subsidies on electric cars and has no plans to extend it any further, Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot was quoted as saying in a report on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gahlot told the Hindustan Times that the electric car segment had got the &#8220;required push&#8221; in Delhi and the focus was now on tapping the two-wheeler, freight and public transport segments of electric vehicles (EVs).<\/p>\n<p>Electric rickshaws and two-wheelers form the bulk of the battery-operated vehicles registered in Delhi, as recent figures show. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually, a subsidy is not required for e-cars as such because those who can afford to pay around \u20b915 lakh for a vehicle do not care if the cost is \u20b91-2 lakh more, sans the subsidy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi government has stopped subsidies on electric cars and has no plans to extend it any further, Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot was quoted as saying in a report on Wednesday. Gahlot told the Hindustan Times that the electric car segment had got the &#8220;required push&#8221; in Delhi and the focus was now on tapping the two-wheeler, freight and public transport segments of electric vehicles (EVs). Electric rickshaws and two-wheelers form the bulk of the battery-operated vehicles registered in Delhi, as recent figures show. \u201cActually, a subsidy is not required for e-cars as such because those who can afford to [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447541","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\/447541","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=447541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}