{"id":549535,"date":"2023-01-24T10:29:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T04:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=549535"},"modified":"2023-01-24T11:44:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T06:14:45","slug":"automakers-focus-on-low-cost-battery-powered-suvs-in-budding-ev-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/automakers-focus-on-low-cost-battery-powered-suvs-in-budding-ev-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Automakers focus on low-cost battery powered SUVs in budding EV market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In India, where an increasing number of consumers aspire to own bigger cars to cope with the country\u2019s notoriously potholed roads and bad traffic, automakers are betting on low-cost battery-powered SUVs to capture the budding electric vehicle market.<\/p>\n<p>At the nation\u2019s major auto show in New Delhi earlier this month, there was a new breed of EVs taking center stage, with predominately foreign companies looking to muscle in on the nascent electric scene. In a marked shift in rhetoric, local auto bosses were also excitedly talking up the sector\u2019s prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Homegrown manufacturers Tata Motors Ltd. and Mahindra &amp; Mahindra Ltd. are now jostling with Chinese giants BYD Co. and SAIC Motor Corp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In India, where an increasing number of consumers aspire to own bigger cars to cope with the country\u2019s notoriously potholed roads and bad traffic, automakers are betting on low-cost battery-powered SUVs to capture the budding electric vehicle market. At the nation\u2019s major auto show in New Delhi earlier this month, there was a new breed of EVs taking center stage, with predominately foreign companies looking to muscle in on the nascent electric scene. In a marked shift in rhetoric, local auto bosses were also excitedly talking up the sector\u2019s prospects. Homegrown manufacturers Tata Motors Ltd. and Mahindra &amp; Mahindra Ltd. [&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-549535","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\/549535","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=549535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}