{"id":461763,"date":"2022-01-14T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T05:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=461763"},"modified":"2022-01-14T12:17:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T06:47:36","slug":"honda-to-kick-off-ev-battery-swapping-in-bengaluru-by-june-first-in-3-wheeler-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/honda-to-kick-off-ev-battery-swapping-in-bengaluru-by-june-first-in-3-wheeler-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Honda to kick off EV battery swapping in Bengaluru by June, first in 3-wheeler space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese auto major Honda Motor will start offering battery-swapping service to electric three-wheelers in Bengaluru by the end of June, seeking to test the market in India\u2019s tech capital before entering other cities and the two-wheeler segment with the service.<\/p>\n<p>The company will begin with seven stations before scaling up to 50 over the next 18 months, Karnataka\u2019s commissioner for industries, Gunjan Krishna, who led the talks with the company, told ET.<\/p>\n<p>Honda did its proof-of-concept experiment in Mumbai, but has opted for Bengaluru to launch the service, she said. <\/p>\n<p>The auto major has already set up a subsidiary, Honda Power Pack Energy India, to roll out the business and has invested Rs 135 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese auto major Honda Motor will start offering battery-swapping service to electric three-wheelers in Bengaluru by the end of June, seeking to test the market in India\u2019s tech capital before entering other cities and the two-wheeler segment with the service. The company will begin with seven stations before scaling up to 50 over the next 18 months, Karnataka\u2019s commissioner for industries, Gunjan Krishna, who led the talks with the company, told ET. Honda did its proof-of-concept experiment in Mumbai, but has opted for Bengaluru to launch the service, she said. The auto major has already set up a subsidiary, Honda [&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-461763","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\/461763","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=461763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}