{"id":507125,"date":"2022-07-20T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T06:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=507125"},"modified":"2022-07-20T11:41:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T06:11:01","slug":"supply-side-crunch-high-input-prices-affect-e-scooter-maker-athers-path-to-profitability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/supply-side-crunch-high-input-prices-affect-e-scooter-maker-athers-path-to-profitability\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply side crunch, high input prices affect e-scooter maker Ather&#8217;s path to profitability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supply-side disruptions and higher commodity prices are taking a toll on India&#8217;s EV industry and despite a rising demand, the shortage of materials and higher input costs are affecting profitability.<\/p>\n<p>Electric scooter maker Ather Energy&#8217;s CEO and co-founder Tarun Mehta said that the path to profitability will take a little longer than earlier anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was hoping to break even later this year itself. I would add a few quarters to that now,&#8221; its Chief Executive and co-founder Tarun Mehta told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supply-side disruptions and higher commodity prices are taking a toll on India&#8217;s EV industry and despite a rising demand, the shortage of materials and higher input costs are affecting profitability. Electric scooter maker Ather Energy&#8217;s CEO and co-founder Tarun Mehta said that the path to profitability will take a little longer than earlier anticipated. &#8220;I was hoping to break even later this year itself. I would add a few quarters to that now,&#8221; its Chief Executive and co-founder Tarun Mehta told Reuters.<\/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-507125","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\/507125","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=507125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}