{"id":534552,"date":"2022-11-05T10:29:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T04:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=534552"},"modified":"2022-11-05T11:26:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T05:56:56","slug":"major-dip-in-cost-of-buying-and-operating-electric-buses-govt-data-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/major-dip-in-cost-of-buying-and-operating-electric-buses-govt-data-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Major dip in cost of buying and operating electric buses, Govt data show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE COST of buying and operating battery-powered buses and three-wheelers has seen a significant dip, following various government incentives aimed at increasing the acceptance of these vehicles for public transport, said sources. <\/p>\n<p>Citing government data, sources said that the cost of operating a battery-powered three-wheeler has fallen by up to 25%, as compared to 2016-17. While an electric three-wheeler is currently priced at about Rs 3 lakh, its total cost of ownership (TCO) is about Rs 2.1\/ km, as compared to Rs 2.8\/km for its petrol variant and Rs 2.32 for its CNG variant. <\/p>\n<p>The TCO of any vehicle is calculated on the basis of its acquisition and operational cost over the period of service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE COST of buying and operating battery-powered buses and three-wheelers has seen a significant dip, following various government incentives aimed at increasing the acceptance of these vehicles for public transport, said sources. Citing government data, sources said that the cost of operating a battery-powered three-wheeler has fallen by up to 25%, as compared to 2016-17. While an electric three-wheeler is currently priced at about Rs 3 lakh, its total cost of ownership (TCO) is about Rs 2.1\/ km, as compared to Rs 2.8\/km for its petrol variant and Rs 2.32 for its CNG variant. The TCO of any vehicle is [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534552","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=534552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}