{"id":485817,"date":"2022-04-22T09:39:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T04:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=485817"},"modified":"2022-04-22T10:35:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T05:05:11","slug":"ev-fires-companies-told-to-act-quality-rules-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ev-fires-companies-told-to-act-quality-rules-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"EV fires: Companies told to act; quality rules soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has asked electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers to take \u201cadvance action\u201d to recall all defective batches of vehicles immediately and has said that it would soon issue quality-centric guidelines for EVs. This comes in the wake of over a dozen instances of electric scooters erupting into flames across the country, and even claiming lives in some cases.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets Thursday, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari cautioned EV makers that if they are found \u201cnegligent in their process\u201d, the government will impose a heavy penalty and a recall of all of their defective EVs will be ordered. He also, for the first time, officially acknowledged the mishaps involving EVs in the country,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has asked electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers to take \u201cadvance action\u201d to recall all defective batches of vehicles immediately and has said that it would soon issue quality-centric guidelines for EVs. This comes in the wake of over a dozen instances of electric scooters erupting into flames across the country, and even claiming lives in some cases. In a series of tweets Thursday, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari cautioned EV makers that if they are found \u201cnegligent in their process\u201d, the government will impose a heavy penalty and a recall of all of their defective EVs will be ordered. He [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485817","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=485817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}