{"id":476538,"date":"2022-03-17T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T05:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=476538"},"modified":"2022-03-17T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T06:52:14","slug":"ev-sales-will-shoot-up-in-five-years-says-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ev-sales-will-shoot-up-in-five-years-says-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"EV sales will shoot up in five years, says Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari Wednesday expressed optimism about the adoption of electric and alternative fuel-powered vehicles, saying the scenario will change in the next five years. <\/p>\n<p>Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha, the minister stated that sales of petrol and diesel vehicles will fall by the day, while that of electric and alternate fuel-powered vehicles will increase. The minister, however, refrained from fixing a target for alternative fuel and electric vehicles. &#8220;It (alternate fuels and electric vehicle) should be natural choice of the consumers&#8230;we don&#8217;t want to commit (or fix any target for EV),&#8221; Gadkari said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari Wednesday expressed optimism about the adoption of electric and alternative fuel-powered vehicles, saying the scenario will change in the next five years. Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha, the minister stated that sales of petrol and diesel vehicles will fall by the day, while that of electric and alternate fuel-powered vehicles will increase. The minister, however, refrained from fixing a target for alternative fuel and electric vehicles. &#8220;It (alternate fuels and electric vehicle) should be natural choice of the consumers&#8230;we don&#8217;t want to commit (or fix any target for EV),&#8221; [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476538","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=476538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}