{"id":569388,"date":"2023-04-12T09:48:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T04:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=569388"},"modified":"2023-04-12T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:14:00","slug":"e-autos-yet-to-catch-on-despite-bengalurus-ev-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/e-autos-yet-to-catch-on-despite-bengalurus-ev-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"E-autos yet to catch on despite Bengaluru\u2019s EV progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru boasts a commendable adoption rate of Electric Vehicles (EVs); however, the ubiquitous auto-rickshaws seem to have been left behind in this race.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the lakhs of auto-rickshaws that traverse the city roads, only a meagre number of them are e-autos, and a handful have been retrofitted to run on electric power.<\/p>\n<p>C Sampath, general secretary, Adarsh Auto Drivers\u2019 Union, estimates that a mere 1% of the auto-rickshaws are electric. \u201cThere are close to 1.5 lakh autos in the city and maybe 1,500 to 2,000 of them are e-autos,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru boasts a commendable adoption rate of Electric Vehicles (EVs); however, the ubiquitous auto-rickshaws seem to have been left behind in this race. Out of the lakhs of auto-rickshaws that traverse the city roads, only a meagre number of them are e-autos, and a handful have been retrofitted to run on electric power. C Sampath, general secretary, Adarsh Auto Drivers\u2019 Union, estimates that a mere 1% of the auto-rickshaws are electric. \u201cThere are close to 1.5 lakh autos in the city and maybe 1,500 to 2,000 of them are e-autos,\u201d he said.<\/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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569388","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=569388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}