{"id":465626,"date":"2022-02-02T11:43:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T06:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=465626"},"modified":"2022-02-02T11:43:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T06:13:54","slug":"budget-2022-special-mobility-zones-and-battery-swapping-policy-for-evs-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-2022-special-mobility-zones-and-battery-swapping-policy-for-evs-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2022: Special mobility zones and battery-swapping policy for EVs soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: To promote green mobility, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget 2022 speech announced that the government will soon come up with a battery-swapping policy and develop \u201cspecial mobility zones\u201d for electric vehicles (EVs). The battery swapping policy is expected to give a big boost to the e-commerce delivery and three-wheeler transport service sector as both these categories are bound by time constraints making instant battery swapping more viable over charging the existing battery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo promote a shift to the use of public transport in urban areas&#8230;special mobility zones with zero fossil fuel policy to be introduced&#8230;Considering space constraints in urban areas, a \u2018Battery Swapping Policy\u2019 will be brought in,\u201d Sitharaman said in her budget speech.<\/p>\n<p>India has set a target of 30% EV sales penetration for private cars, 70% for commercial vehicles, 40% for buses and 80% for two-wheelers and three-wheelers by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: To promote green mobility, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget 2022 speech announced that the government will soon come up with a battery-swapping policy and develop \u201cspecial mobility zones\u201d for electric vehicles (EVs). The battery swapping policy is expected to give a big boost to the e-commerce delivery and three-wheeler transport service sector as both these categories are bound by time constraints making instant battery swapping more viable over charging the existing battery. \u201cTo promote a shift to the use of public transport in urban areas&#8230;special mobility zones with zero fossil fuel policy to be introduced&#8230;Considering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465626","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}