{"id":485757,"date":"2022-04-22T08:59:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T03:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=485757"},"modified":"2022-04-22T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T03:46:58","slug":"battery-explosion-kills-1-in-telangana-pure-ev-recalls-2000-e-scooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/battery-explosion-kills-1-in-telangana-pure-ev-recalls-2000-e-scooters\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery explosion kills 1 in Telangana, PURE EV recalls 2,000 e-scooters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An electric vehicle (EV) battery explosion has claimed one life and left two others injured in Telangana\u2019s Nizamabad district \u2014 the latest in a string of such fire incidents \u2014 even as the government considers revamping rules for battery testing.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, the 80-year-old man died and two others in his family sustained burn injuries after the battery of an electric scooter (e-scooter) exploded while being charged at their home in Nizamabad. His son, who had been using the Power Using Renewable Energy (PURE) EV scooter for a year, blamed the \u2018substandard quality\u2019 of its battery for the death of his father.<\/p>\n<p>Nizamabad police have registered a first information report against e-scooter manufacturer PURE EV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An electric vehicle (EV) battery explosion has claimed one life and left two others injured in Telangana\u2019s Nizamabad district \u2014 the latest in a string of such fire incidents \u2014 even as the government considers revamping rules for battery testing. According to media reports, the 80-year-old man died and two others in his family sustained burn injuries after the battery of an electric scooter (e-scooter) exploded while being charged at their home in Nizamabad. His son, who had been using the Power Using Renewable Energy (PURE) EV scooter for a year, blamed the \u2018substandard quality\u2019 of its battery for the [&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-485757","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\/485757","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=485757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}