{"id":522250,"date":"2022-09-15T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T05:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=522250"},"modified":"2022-09-15T12:59:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T07:29:06","slug":"35000-buses-to-go-electric-by-2030-karnataka-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/35000-buses-to-go-electric-by-2030-karnataka-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"35,000 buses to go electric by 2030: Karnataka minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka government wants to have 35,000 electric buses by 2030, Transport Minister B Sriramulu told the Assembly on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>He was responding to a question by Congress MLA Tanveer Sait who sought details on electric buses in the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 35,000 buses. Going forward, given that diesel prices are going up everyday and we\u2019re incurring losses, we want all our buses to become electric by 2030 so that we start making profits. That\u2019s our resolve,\u201d Sriramulu said. <\/p>\n<p>Sriramulu said diesel buses incur a cost of Rs 68.53 per km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka government wants to have 35,000 electric buses by 2030, Transport Minister B Sriramulu told the Assembly on Wednesday. He was responding to a question by Congress MLA Tanveer Sait who sought details on electric buses in the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC). \u201cThere are 35,000 buses. Going forward, given that diesel prices are going up everyday and we\u2019re incurring losses, we want all our buses to become electric by 2030 so that we start making profits. That\u2019s our resolve,\u201d Sriramulu said. Sriramulu said diesel buses incur a cost of Rs 68.53 per km.<\/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":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522250","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=522250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}