{"id":507700,"date":"2022-07-21T11:36:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T06:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=507700"},"modified":"2022-07-21T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T07:43:07","slug":"centre-plans-rs-79000-crore-electric-bus-contract-to-curb-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-plans-rs-79000-crore-electric-bus-contract-to-curb-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre plans Rs 79,000 crore electric bus contract to curb emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-controlled Convergence Energy Services Ltd. is planning a Rs 79,000 crore tender for 50,000 electric buses that will drive India\u2019s plans to decarbonize public transport and help meet its goals for net zero emissions. <\/p>\n<p>CESL Managing Director Mahua Acharya said such tenders are beginning to look like infrastructure projects and local production of electric buses is expected to grow in tandem with demand.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis country is moving very very rapidly on its electric vehicles ambition,\u201d Acharya told Bloomberg Television in an interview. \u201cSo financing remains a challenge in as much as it presents an opportunity.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>CESL was formed in 2020 to manage the solar and electric vehicle leasing business of its parent Energy Efficiency Services Ltd., which is a venture between four state-run energy companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-controlled Convergence Energy Services Ltd. is planning a Rs 79,000 crore tender for 50,000 electric buses that will drive India\u2019s plans to decarbonize public transport and help meet its goals for net zero emissions. CESL Managing Director Mahua Acharya said such tenders are beginning to look like infrastructure projects and local production of electric buses is expected to grow in tandem with demand. \u201cThis country is moving very very rapidly on its electric vehicles ambition,\u201d Acharya told Bloomberg Television in an interview. \u201cSo financing remains a challenge in as much as it presents an opportunity.\u201d CESL was formed in 2020 [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507700","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=507700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}