{"id":529288,"date":"2022-10-13T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T06:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=529288"},"modified":"2022-10-13T12:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T06:32:36","slug":"in-ev-push-army-to-induct-light-vehicles-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-ev-push-army-to-induct-light-vehicles-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"In EV push, army to induct light vehicles, buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to reduce emissions and cut dependence on fossil fuels, the Army has set a target to induct three types of electric vehicles (EVs) \u2014 motorcycles, light vehicles and buses \u2014 in line with operational commitments, officers familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVarious factors unique to the army\u2019s employability, remote locations of employment and operational commitments were considered to arrive at a definite time-bound road map for inducting EVs,\u201d said one of the officers mentioned above, asking not to be named.<\/p>\n<p>According to the officer, the EV push will see the army replace around 25% light vehicles, 38% buses and 48% motorcycles at select peace-time units and formations with adequate charging infrastructure. This is being done in line with the army\u2019s requirements and employability of EVs across different types of terrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to reduce emissions and cut dependence on fossil fuels, the Army has set a target to induct three types of electric vehicles (EVs) \u2014 motorcycles, light vehicles and buses \u2014 in line with operational commitments, officers familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. \u201cVarious factors unique to the army\u2019s employability, remote locations of employment and operational commitments were considered to arrive at a definite time-bound road map for inducting EVs,\u201d said one of the officers mentioned above, asking not to be named. According to the officer, the EV push will see the army replace around 25% light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529288","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}