{"id":500830,"date":"2022-06-27T09:48:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T04:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=500830"},"modified":"2022-06-27T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T04:40:43","slug":"maruti-suzuki-betting-on-hybrids-over-electric-vehicles-in-clean-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/maruti-suzuki-betting-on-hybrids-over-electric-vehicles-in-clean-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Maruti Suzuki betting on hybrids over electric vehicles in clean shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., the automaker that sells every other car on the nation\u2019s roads, believes electric vehicles aren\u2019t the answer to reducing carbon emissions in the world\u2019s third-biggest releaser of greenhouse gases &#8212; at least not in the immediate future.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s largest automaker reckons that vehicles powered by hybrid technology, natural gas and biofuels present a better path toward a cleaner future than electric cars considering the nation generates about 75% of its electricity from dirty coal, Chairman R.C. Bhargava said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalking about electric cars without looking at the greenness of the electricity generated in the country is an inadequate approach to this problem,\u201d Bhargava said in an interview from his home in Delhi last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., the automaker that sells every other car on the nation\u2019s roads, believes electric vehicles aren\u2019t the answer to reducing carbon emissions in the world\u2019s third-biggest releaser of greenhouse gases &#8212; at least not in the immediate future. India\u2019s largest automaker reckons that vehicles powered by hybrid technology, natural gas and biofuels present a better path toward a cleaner future than electric cars considering the nation generates about 75% of its electricity from dirty coal, Chairman R.C. Bhargava said in an interview. \u201cTalking about electric cars without looking at the greenness of the electricity generated in the [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500830","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\/500830","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=500830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}