{"id":463064,"date":"2022-01-21T08:25:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T02:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=463064"},"modified":"2022-01-21T09:04:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T03:34:57","slug":"convergence-energy-services-floats-biggest-ever-tender-for-electric-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/convergence-energy-services-floats-biggest-ever-tender-for-electric-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"Convergence Energy Services floats biggest ever tender for electric buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Convergence Energy Services (CESL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Efficiency Services (EESL), on Thursday announced the floating of a request for proposal for the biggest-ever demand for electric buses (e-buses) under the Grand Challenge scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Through the Rs 5,450-crore tender, CESL aims to deploy 5,450 single-decker buses and 130 double-decker buses. It will include a set of homogenised demand for e-buses aggregated across five major cities. <\/p>\n<p>From working on financing electric vehicles (EVs) and setting up a charging infrastructure (infra) to floating tenders for EVs, the EESL subsidiary has been playing a pivotal role in pushing electrification in the public transport space. EESL recently closed a tender for 150,000 electric three-wheelers, at prices 18-20 per cent lower than the retail price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convergence Energy Services (CESL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Efficiency Services (EESL), on Thursday announced the floating of a request for proposal for the biggest-ever demand for electric buses (e-buses) under the Grand Challenge scheme. Through the Rs 5,450-crore tender, CESL aims to deploy 5,450 single-decker buses and 130 double-decker buses. It will include a set of homogenised demand for e-buses aggregated across five major cities. From working on financing electric vehicles (EVs) and setting up a charging infrastructure (infra) to floating tenders for EVs, the EESL subsidiary has been playing a pivotal role in pushing electrification in the [&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-463064","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\/463064","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=463064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}