{"id":463117,"date":"2022-01-21T09:51:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T04:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=463117"},"modified":"2022-01-21T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T04:41:20","slug":"bring-electric-vehicle-financing-under-priority-sector-lending-allocate-sufficient-funds-for-rd-smev-in-its-budget-2022-wishlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bring-electric-vehicle-financing-under-priority-sector-lending-allocate-sufficient-funds-for-rd-smev-in-its-budget-2022-wishlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring electric vehicle financing under priority sector lending, allocate sufficient funds for R&amp;D: SMEV in its Budget 2022 wishlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicles must be considered for priority lending by the government to accelerate their adoption, while sufficient funds must also be allocated for R&amp;D in a public-private partnership mode for development of batteries, industry body SMEV said on Thursday. In its Budget wish list, the Society Of Manufacturers Of Electric Vehicles (SMEV) also said there is a need to amend the PLI scheme for automobile and auto components, as in its current form there is an &#8220;unfair price disadvantage&#8221; for small and medium-size EV players in the industry. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To create a robust ecosystem for electric vehicles and give a boost to the EV market, the government could look at putting EVs in the priority lending sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicles must be considered for priority lending by the government to accelerate their adoption, while sufficient funds must also be allocated for R&amp;D in a public-private partnership mode for development of batteries, industry body SMEV said on Thursday. In its Budget wish list, the Society Of Manufacturers Of Electric Vehicles (SMEV) also said there is a need to amend the PLI scheme for automobile and auto components, as in its current form there is an &#8220;unfair price disadvantage&#8221; for small and medium-size EV players in the industry. &#8220;To create a robust ecosystem for electric vehicles and give a boost [&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-463117","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\/463117","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=463117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}