{"id":497836,"date":"2022-06-13T09:16:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T03:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=497836"},"modified":"2022-06-13T09:58:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T04:28:28","slug":"evs-catching-fire-because-of-mad-rush-to-get-into-business-rajiv-bajaj-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/evs-catching-fire-because-of-mad-rush-to-get-into-business-rajiv-bajaj-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EVs catching fire because of &#8216;mad rush&#8217; to get into business: Rajiv Bajaj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic vehicles catching fire show poor manufacturing and India must avoid &#8220;mad whole rush&#8221; for untested products, said Rajiv Bajaj, the managing director of Bajaj Auto, on Friday, as he criticized &#8220;diluted norms&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Electric scooter fires have made news this year, and last month a report by the state-run Defence Research &amp; Development Organisation defects in batteries as the cause. The defects may have crept in because electric two-wheeler companies intentionally used lower-grade materials to cut costs, said the report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The issue is not the fire itself. This (such incidents) happened in the vehicles with internal combustion engines as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic vehicles catching fire show poor manufacturing and India must avoid &#8220;mad whole rush&#8221; for untested products, said Rajiv Bajaj, the managing director of Bajaj Auto, on Friday, as he criticized &#8220;diluted norms&#8221;. Electric scooter fires have made news this year, and last month a report by the state-run Defence Research &amp; Development Organisation defects in batteries as the cause. The defects may have crept in because electric two-wheeler companies intentionally used lower-grade materials to cut costs, said the report. &#8220;The issue is not the fire itself. This (such incidents) happened in the vehicles with internal combustion engines as well.<\/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-497836","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\/497836","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=497836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}