{"id":510565,"date":"2022-08-01T09:18:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T03:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=510565"},"modified":"2022-08-01T09:48:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T04:18:16","slug":"evs-going-mainstream-fire-incidents-will-help-industry-mature-ather-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/evs-going-mainstream-fire-incidents-will-help-industry-mature-ather-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"EVs going mainstream, fire incidents will help industry mature: Ather CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electric two-wheelers are going mainstream and the fire incidents will only help manufacturers to focus on quality, thus helping the industry mature, according to Ather Energy cofounder and CEO Tarun Mehta.<\/p>\n<p>The Hero MotoCorp-backed firm expects that by the end of this decade up to 30 million electric two-wheelers would be sold in India and Ather Energy would invest a &#8220;lot more&#8221; for capacity growth over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What has happened recently, I think, has ended up maturing the industry. This will push more and more manufacturers to focus more on quality and reliability,&#8221; Mehta told PTI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric two-wheelers are going mainstream and the fire incidents will only help manufacturers to focus on quality, thus helping the industry mature, according to Ather Energy cofounder and CEO Tarun Mehta. The Hero MotoCorp-backed firm expects that by the end of this decade up to 30 million electric two-wheelers would be sold in India and Ather Energy would invest a &#8220;lot more&#8221; for capacity growth over the next few years. &#8220;What has happened recently, I think, has ended up maturing the industry. This will push more and more manufacturers to focus more on quality and reliability,&#8221; Mehta told PTI.<\/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-510565","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\/510565","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=510565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}