{"id":488195,"date":"2022-04-30T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T09:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=488195"},"modified":"2022-04-30T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T09:36:09","slug":"bmc-plans-policy-for-charging-of-electric-vehicle-batteries-in-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bmc-plans-policy-for-charging-of-electric-vehicle-batteries-in-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"BMC plans policy for charging of electric vehicle batteries in Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BMC on Thursday held its first meeting with various stakeholders on the electric vehicle (EV) charging policy.<\/p>\n<p>BMC officials said while e-vehicles were getting a good response in Mumbai, there was a need for a separate policy for charging their batteries. The city has more than 8,000 e-vehicles. Sunil Godse, deputy municipal commissioner in charge of environment, said discussions are at a nascent stage.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on Friday, a webinar was conducted by Clean Mobility Shift and Climate Trends which explored possible reasons behind a few EV two-wheelers catching fire lately across the country, gaps in protocols, and how to ensure safety standards for batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Sagar Mitra of IIT Bombay pointed to the need for batteries to have the highest stability standards. Shreshth Mishra, co-founder, Simple Energy, said, \u201cWe are a diverse country in terms of temperature, geography, road conditions and riding standards. In so many instances, our twowheelers are overloaded beyond capacity with 3 to 4 riders. This isn\u2019t accounted for in testing. \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BMC on Thursday held its first meeting with various stakeholders on the electric vehicle (EV) charging policy. BMC officials said while e-vehicles were getting a good response in Mumbai, there was a need for a separate policy for charging their batteries. The city has more than 8,000 e-vehicles. Sunil Godse, deputy municipal commissioner in charge of environment, said discussions are at a nascent stage. Meanwhile, on Friday, a webinar was conducted by Clean Mobility Shift and Climate Trends which explored possible reasons behind a few EV two-wheelers catching fire lately across the country, gaps in protocols, and how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488195","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}