{"id":549233,"date":"2023-01-23T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T05:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=549233"},"modified":"2023-01-23T11:05:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T05:35:16","slug":"ktm-chief-says-scope-of-electric-vehicle-mobility-highly-overrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ktm-chief-says-scope-of-electric-vehicle-mobility-highly-overrated\/","title":{"rendered":"KTM chief says scope of electric vehicle mobility highly overrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Swiss sports bike maker KTM, which claims to be the world&#8217;s No 1 premium motorbike brand and also sells tens of hundreds of e-bikes in Europe, is not confident of the capability of electric vehicles beyond a point and feels that optimism on this front is &#8220;highly overrated&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>KTM, which is primarily into high-end racing bikes, has a 50.1:49.9 manufacturing JV with Bajaj Auto. It will also be selling the electric model of the resurrected iconic Chetak scooters from the Bajaj stable in Europe from the first quarter of 2024. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole scope and capability of the concept of electric vehicle mobility is highly overrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Swiss sports bike maker KTM, which claims to be the world&#8217;s No 1 premium motorbike brand and also sells tens of hundreds of e-bikes in Europe, is not confident of the capability of electric vehicles beyond a point and feels that optimism on this front is &#8220;highly overrated&#8221;. KTM, which is primarily into high-end racing bikes, has a 50.1:49.9 manufacturing JV with Bajaj Auto. It will also be selling the electric model of the resurrected iconic Chetak scooters from the Bajaj stable in Europe from the first quarter of 2024. &#8220;The whole scope and capability of the [&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-549233","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\/549233","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=549233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}