{"id":466268,"date":"2022-02-04T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=466268"},"modified":"2022-02-04T13:14:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T07:44:01","slug":"lithium-ion-battery-crunch-has-hit-west-bengals-electric-vehicles-dreams-says-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lithium-ion-battery-crunch-has-hit-west-bengals-electric-vehicles-dreams-says-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithium-ion battery crunch has hit West Bengal\u2019s electric vehicles dreams, says Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Bengal\u2019s e-vehicle aspiration, particularly e-buses in public transportation, has hit a bump following a massive crunch in supply of lithium ion batteries that power electric vehicles (EV). The admission came from transport minister Firhad Hakim on Thursday at a symposium organised by the Merchant Chamber of Commerce. <\/p>\n<p>Hakim said Bengal wanted to replace its diesel-guzzling, highly polluting bus fleet with zero emission e-vehicles at a faster pace but the acquisition of e-buses was not as easy. It requires a long waiting period after placing an order as there is a serious shortage of lithium ion batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Bengal\u2019s e-vehicle aspiration, particularly e-buses in public transportation, has hit a bump following a massive crunch in supply of lithium ion batteries that power electric vehicles (EV). The admission came from transport minister Firhad Hakim on Thursday at a symposium organised by the Merchant Chamber of Commerce. Hakim said Bengal wanted to replace its diesel-guzzling, highly polluting bus fleet with zero emission e-vehicles at a faster pace but the acquisition of e-buses was not as easy. It requires a long waiting period after placing an order as there is a serious shortage of lithium ion batteries.<\/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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466268","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=466268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}