{"id":449919,"date":"2021-11-16T08:34:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=449919"},"modified":"2021-11-16T10:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T04:36:44","slug":"record-fuel-costs-push-scooter-loving-indians-to-opt-for-electric-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/record-fuel-costs-push-scooter-loving-indians-to-opt-for-electric-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Record fuel costs push scooter-loving Indians to opt for electric models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highest fuel prices in India\u2019s history are spurring efforts to shift the nation\u2019s ubiquitous motor scooters &#8212; which account for nearly 70% of local gasoline consumption &#8212; to electric models, along with a new pledge to hit net-zero by 2070.<\/p>\n<p>At current prices, even the most fuel-efficient two-wheeler guzzles gasoline worth more than 100 rupees ($1.3) for a 100-kilometer ride, while an e-scooter can run the same distance at less than a sixth of that cost. <\/p>\n<p>Companies like Hero Electric Vehicles Pvt. and Ola Electric Mobility Pvt., a unit of India\u2019s biggest ride-hailing services provider Ola, are launching new two-wheelers priced around $1,000, roughly what the country\u2019s top-selling gasoline motorcycles and scooters cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highest fuel prices in India\u2019s history are spurring efforts to shift the nation\u2019s ubiquitous motor scooters &#8212; which account for nearly 70% of local gasoline consumption &#8212; to electric models, along with a new pledge to hit net-zero by 2070. At current prices, even the most fuel-efficient two-wheeler guzzles gasoline worth more than 100 rupees ($1.3) for a 100-kilometer ride, while an e-scooter can run the same distance at less than a sixth of that cost. Companies like Hero Electric Vehicles Pvt. and Ola Electric Mobility Pvt., a unit of India\u2019s biggest ride-hailing services provider Ola, are launching new [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449919","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=449919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}