{"id":553071,"date":"2023-02-06T09:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T04:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=553071"},"modified":"2023-02-06T10:14:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T04:44:04","slug":"funding-for-electric-vehicle-sector-up-117-in-2022-at-1-6-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/funding-for-electric-vehicle-sector-up-117-in-2022-at-1-6-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding for electric vehicle sector up 117% in 2022, at $1.6 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s electric vehicles (EV) market is the third-largest in terms of number of companies, next only to the US and China, and the fourth-highest funded market in this space. \u201cFavourable government initiatives like FAME II, a programme to speed up the electrification of public transportation, as well as other elements like growing environmental awareness and rising oil prices, have all contributed to the sector\u2019s expansion,\u201d said Neha Singh, co-founder of Tracxn, a start-up data platform. <\/p>\n<p>The Budget exemption for Customs duty on capital goods and machinery for manufacture of EV batteries, and the duty cut on lithium batteries from 21 per cent to 13 per cent will lower prices and boost investment in the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s electric vehicles (EV) market is the third-largest in terms of number of companies, next only to the US and China, and the fourth-highest funded market in this space. \u201cFavourable government initiatives like FAME II, a programme to speed up the electrification of public transportation, as well as other elements like growing environmental awareness and rising oil prices, have all contributed to the sector\u2019s expansion,\u201d said Neha Singh, co-founder of Tracxn, a start-up data platform. The Budget exemption for Customs duty on capital goods and machinery for manufacture of EV batteries, and the duty cut on lithium batteries from 21 [&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-553071","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\/553071","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=553071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}