{"id":506794,"date":"2022-07-19T10:25:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T04:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=506794"},"modified":"2022-07-19T12:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T06:32:40","slug":"electric-two-wheeler-adoption-gaining-traction-in-semi-urban-rural-markets-shriram-city-md-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electric-two-wheeler-adoption-gaining-traction-in-semi-urban-rural-markets-shriram-city-md-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric two-wheeler adoption gaining traction in semi-urban, rural markets: Shriram City MD &amp; CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to popular belief, adoption of electric two-wheelers is on an uptrend in semi-urban and rural areas thanks to subsidised power that helps users cut the running cost of a vehicle, according to Shriram City Union Finance MD and CEO YS Chakravarti.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the overall sales of two-wheelers have not returned to pre-COVID levels and that people are also postponing their purchases due to higher running costs with petrol becoming costlier, a lot of demand is coming from rural and semi-urban areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne good thing I am seeing is that a lot of demand for electric two-wheelers is coming from rural and semi urban areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to popular belief, adoption of electric two-wheelers is on an uptrend in semi-urban and rural areas thanks to subsidised power that helps users cut the running cost of a vehicle, according to Shriram City Union Finance MD and CEO YS Chakravarti. Even as the overall sales of two-wheelers have not returned to pre-COVID levels and that people are also postponing their purchases due to higher running costs with petrol becoming costlier, a lot of demand is coming from rural and semi-urban areas. \u201cOne good thing I am seeing is that a lot of demand for electric two-wheelers is coming [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506794","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=506794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}