{"id":497660,"date":"2022-06-10T10:25:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T04:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=497660"},"modified":"2022-06-10T11:09:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T05:39:44","slug":"indias-plan-to-recycle-old-cars-is-failing-to-woo-vehicle-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-plan-to-recycle-old-cars-is-failing-to-woo-vehicle-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s plan to recycle old cars is failing to woo vehicle owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s plan to remove millions of older polluting cars from its roads in an effort to clear some of the world\u2019s most toxic air looks set to face several challenges with a new survey showing the majority of vehicle owners aren\u2019t interested in trading in their automobile based on age.<\/p>\n<p>Some 57% of 10,543 vehicle owners surveyed by LocalCircles say whether a car should be removed from service or not should depend on miles on the odometer rather than age. The government last year mandated that personal vehicles more than 20 years old and commercial vehicles more than 15 years old will need to undergo fitness tests in order to remain on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s plan to remove millions of older polluting cars from its roads in an effort to clear some of the world\u2019s most toxic air looks set to face several challenges with a new survey showing the majority of vehicle owners aren\u2019t interested in trading in their automobile based on age. Some 57% of 10,543 vehicle owners surveyed by LocalCircles say whether a car should be removed from service or not should depend on miles on the odometer rather than age. The government last year mandated that personal vehicles more than 20 years old and commercial vehicles more than 15 years [&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-497660","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\/497660","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=497660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}