{"id":507124,"date":"2022-07-20T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T06:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=507124"},"modified":"2022-07-20T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T06:10:35","slug":"is-the-rise-in-popularity-of-evs-coming-at-the-cost-of-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/is-the-rise-in-popularity-of-evs-coming-at-the-cost-of-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the rise in popularity of EVs coming at the cost of safety?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With electric vehicles gaining popularity in India, the key concern in the segment, safety, might just have taken the back seat. Companies are in a race to meet high targets in minimum time.<\/p>\n<p>The surging sales growth of EVs, especially in the two- and three-wheeler categories that have seen several launches lately, may slow as safety norms are tightened following four recent fires involving such bikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With electric vehicles gaining popularity in India, the key concern in the segment, safety, might just have taken the back seat. Companies are in a race to meet high targets in minimum time. The surging sales growth of EVs, especially in the two- and three-wheeler categories that have seen several launches lately, may slow as safety norms are tightened following four recent fires involving such bikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-507124","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\/507124","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}