{"id":494276,"date":"2022-05-28T11:01:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T05:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=494276"},"modified":"2022-05-28T12:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T07:02:52","slug":"ev-fire-incidents-probe-panel-to-submit-report-on-may-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ev-fire-incidents-probe-panel-to-submit-report-on-may-30\/","title":{"rendered":"EV fire incidents: Probe panel to submit report on May 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An expert committee set up by the road transport ministry to investigate the cases of electric two-wheelers catching fire and suggest remedial measures will submit its report next week, a senior government official said on Friday. Recently, there have been multiple incidents of electric vehicles (EVs) catching fire and resulting in deaths and severe injuries to people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The expert committee (formed to enquire into the incidents of electric two-wheelers catching fire) will submit it&#8217;s report on May 30,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari had recently said the companies found negligent will be penalised and a recall of all defective vehicles will be ordered after the expert panel submits its report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An expert committee set up by the road transport ministry to investigate the cases of electric two-wheelers catching fire and suggest remedial measures will submit its report next week, a senior government official said on Friday. Recently, there have been multiple incidents of electric vehicles (EVs) catching fire and resulting in deaths and severe injuries to people. &#8220;The expert committee (formed to enquire into the incidents of electric two-wheelers catching fire) will submit it&#8217;s report on May 30,&#8221; the official said. Road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari had recently said the companies found negligent will be penalised and a [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494276","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=494276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}