{"id":484763,"date":"2022-04-16T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T05:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=484763"},"modified":"2022-04-16T13:04:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T07:34:19","slug":"not-enough-charging-stations-ev-policy-for-govt-vehicles-postponed-by-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/not-enough-charging-stations-ev-policy-for-govt-vehicles-postponed-by-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Not enough charging stations, EV policy for govt vehicles postponed by a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharashtra government has decided to postpone the implementation of its new Electric Vehicle (EV) policy by one year. According to the policy, from April 2022, all new government vehicles, either owned or leased, operating in major cities would have to be electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after opposition from various government departments which pointed out the absence of adequate charging points across the state for these vehicles and also questioned how the EVs would fare in remote parts of the state where road networks are not up to the mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharashtra government has decided to postpone the implementation of its new Electric Vehicle (EV) policy by one year. According to the policy, from April 2022, all new government vehicles, either owned or leased, operating in major cities would have to be electric cars. The move comes after opposition from various government departments which pointed out the absence of adequate charging points across the state for these vehicles and also questioned how the EVs would fare in remote parts of the state where road networks are not up to the mark.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484763","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=484763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}