{"id":449478,"date":"2021-11-11T11:32:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T06:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=449478"},"modified":"2021-11-11T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T07:39:25","slug":"kolkata-to-have-non-fossil-fuel-vehicles-by-2030-outgoing-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kolkata-to-have-non-fossil-fuel-vehicles-by-2030-outgoing-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata to have non-fossil fuel vehicles by 2030: Outgoing mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By 2030, Kolkata will mostly run on non-fossil fuel, Kolkata\u2019s outgoing mayor Firhad Hakim told an online meeting on Wednesday that connected Kolkata with the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. <\/p>\n<p>The meeting organised by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry highlighted the city\u2019s \u201csuccess and plan\u201d to introduce electric vehicles. It also served as a reminder that trams, mother of all e-vehicles, had not only been the first public transport of Kolkata but had never stopped trundling since. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom 2030, the city\u2019s public transport will mainly run on CNG (compressed natural gas) and electricity. Already 100 e-buses are plying and another 1,000 will be added to the fleet soon,\u201d Hakim told the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 2030, Kolkata will mostly run on non-fossil fuel, Kolkata\u2019s outgoing mayor Firhad Hakim told an online meeting on Wednesday that connected Kolkata with the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. The meeting organised by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry highlighted the city\u2019s \u201csuccess and plan\u201d to introduce electric vehicles. It also served as a reminder that trams, mother of all e-vehicles, had not only been the first public transport of Kolkata but had never stopped trundling since. \u201cFrom 2030, the city\u2019s public transport will mainly run on CNG (compressed natural gas) and electricity. Already 100 e-buses are plying [&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":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449478","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=449478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}