{"id":514253,"date":"2022-08-16T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T04:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=514253"},"modified":"2022-08-16T11:37:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T06:07:33","slug":"volkswagen-testing-electric-vehicles-under-skoda-brand-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/volkswagen-testing-electric-vehicles-under-skoda-brand-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen testing electric vehicles under Skoda brand for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German auto major Volkswagen group has started testing some electric vehicles from the \u0160KODA brand in India as it evaluates the products to be brought to the country for electromobility targeting the mass segment, according to a senior company official.<\/p>\n<p>The group, which has given the responsibility of leading its growth in India to \u0160KODA AUTO, will also continue to focus on internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles as it feels that bringing EVs at a large scale will depend on the ecosystem and infrastructure development in the country, said Piyush Arora, managing director, \u0160KODA AUTO Volkswagen India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognise that there is demand in India for electric vehicles, so we have already launched Porsche Taycan and the Audi e-Tron which are doing extremely well in the Indian market,\u201d he told PTI in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German auto major Volkswagen group has started testing some electric vehicles from the \u0160KODA brand in India as it evaluates the products to be brought to the country for electromobility targeting the mass segment, according to a senior company official. The group, which has given the responsibility of leading its growth in India to \u0160KODA AUTO, will also continue to focus on internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles as it feels that bringing EVs at a large scale will depend on the ecosystem and infrastructure development in the country, said Piyush Arora, managing director, \u0160KODA AUTO Volkswagen India. \u201cWe recognise that [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514253","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\/514253","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=514253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}