{"id":485740,"date":"2022-04-22T08:51:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T03:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=485740"},"modified":"2022-04-22T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T03:43:15","slug":"early-ev-adoption-lowering-prices-and-enhancing-safety-on-govts-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/early-ev-adoption-lowering-prices-and-enhancing-safety-on-govts-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Early EV adoption, lowering prices and enhancing safety on govt&#8217;s agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of frequent incidents of e-vehicles catching fire, the NITI Aayog on Thursday released the much-awaited draft policy on battery-swapping for electric two- and three-wheelers.<\/p>\n<p>Its highlights are lowering prices of electric vehicles (EVs); accelerating the adoption of battery-powered vehicles; addressing anomalies in goods and services tax (GST) rates with regard to batteries, EV supply equipment, and e-vehicles; and enhancing the safety and performance of advanced cell chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>This comes nearly three months after the proposed policy found a mention in Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s Budget speech. The policy is aimed at providing an impetus to India\u2019s transition to green mobility, she had said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of frequent incidents of e-vehicles catching fire, the NITI Aayog on Thursday released the much-awaited draft policy on battery-swapping for electric two- and three-wheelers. Its highlights are lowering prices of electric vehicles (EVs); accelerating the adoption of battery-powered vehicles; addressing anomalies in goods and services tax (GST) rates with regard to batteries, EV supply equipment, and e-vehicles; and enhancing the safety and performance of advanced cell chemistry. This comes nearly three months after the proposed policy found a mention in Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s Budget speech. The policy is aimed at providing an impetus to India\u2019s [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485740","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=485740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}