{"id":457450,"date":"2021-12-21T09:49:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T04:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=457450"},"modified":"2021-12-21T10:41:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T05:11:59","slug":"will-battery-swapping-catapult-evs-into-the-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/will-battery-swapping-catapult-evs-into-the-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Will battery swapping catapult EVs into the mainstream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August last year, when the government announced the sale of electric two-wheelers and three-wheelers without a factory-fitted battery, industry and consumer alike were left a little perplexed. Fast forward to now, we realise that the government was acting with a forethought.<\/p>\n<p>And in October this year, the Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari told a conclave that 80% of two-wheelers and 30% of private vehicles will be electric by 2030. <\/p>\n<p>Battery price makes up as much as 50% of an electric vehicle\u2019s cost. An emerging trend to tackle the problem of high cost of EV adoption is battery swapping technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August last year, when the government announced the sale of electric two-wheelers and three-wheelers without a factory-fitted battery, industry and consumer alike were left a little perplexed. Fast forward to now, we realise that the government was acting with a forethought. And in October this year, the Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari told a conclave that 80% of two-wheelers and 30% of private vehicles will be electric by 2030. Battery price makes up as much as 50% of an electric vehicle\u2019s cost. An emerging trend to tackle the problem of high cost of EV adoption [&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-457450","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\/457450","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=457450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}