{"id":521835,"date":"2022-09-14T10:40:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T05:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=521835"},"modified":"2022-09-14T12:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T06:53:23","slug":"fatal-e-scooter-showroom-fire-exposes-indias-rush-toward-greener-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fatal-e-scooter-showroom-fire-exposes-indias-rush-toward-greener-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal e-scooter showroom fire exposes India\u2019s rush toward greener future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deadly incident involving electric scooters in Telangana has once again sparked concerns about the world\u2019s third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases playing with human lives in the race to embrace cleaner transport.<\/p>\n<p>A fire erupted at an electric scooter showroom of Gemopai, a joint venture between China-based Opai Electric and New Delhi\u2019s Goreen E-Mobility, killing eight people, police inspector Y. Nageshwar Rao said by phone, without specifying what caused the blaze. <\/p>\n<p>The tragedy prompted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to offer Rs 200,000 ($2,500) compensation to the families of the deceased and Rs 50,000 to those injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deadly incident involving electric scooters in Telangana has once again sparked concerns about the world\u2019s third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases playing with human lives in the race to embrace cleaner transport. A fire erupted at an electric scooter showroom of Gemopai, a joint venture between China-based Opai Electric and New Delhi\u2019s Goreen E-Mobility, killing eight people, police inspector Y. Nageshwar Rao said by phone, without specifying what caused the blaze. The tragedy prompted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to offer Rs 200,000 ($2,500) compensation to the families of the deceased and Rs 50,000 to those injured.<\/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-521835","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\/521835","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=521835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}