{"id":552028,"date":"2023-02-02T10:38:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T05:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=552028"},"modified":"2023-02-02T11:28:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T05:58:28","slug":"ev-sector-welcomes-move-to-make-vehicles-affordable-for-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ev-sector-welcomes-move-to-make-vehicles-affordable-for-the-masses\/","title":{"rendered":"EV sector welcomes move to make vehicles affordable for the masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNION FINANCE Minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s announcement on electric vehicles during the budget has drawn praise from the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Sulajja Firodia Motwani, Founder and CEO, Kinetic Green said, \u201cWe are glad that the government acknowledged EV industry\u2019s appeal and has removed the customs duty on capital goods imported for the manufacturing of Lithium-ion batteries, which will result in making EVs more affordable for the masses. This will also boost the production of electric vehicles and components in India as part of the Make In India campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Motwani said, \u201cWe welcome the budget and as likely said by the Finance Minister, the budget presented today is the blueprint for India @100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNION FINANCE Minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s announcement on electric vehicles during the budget has drawn praise from the industry. Sulajja Firodia Motwani, Founder and CEO, Kinetic Green said, \u201cWe are glad that the government acknowledged EV industry\u2019s appeal and has removed the customs duty on capital goods imported for the manufacturing of Lithium-ion batteries, which will result in making EVs more affordable for the masses. This will also boost the production of electric vehicles and components in India as part of the Make In India campaign.\u201d Motwani said, \u201cWe welcome the budget and as likely said by the Finance Minister, 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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552028","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=552028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}