{"id":570596,"date":"2023-04-19T11:51:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T06:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=570596"},"modified":"2023-04-19T11:51:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T06:21:02","slug":"taxi-startup-blusmart-picks-ev-fight-with-uber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/taxi-startup-blusmart-picks-ev-fight-with-uber\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi startup BluSmart picks EV fight with Uber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian ride-hailing startup BluSmart is seeking to challenge Uber and Ola for market share in the country with bets on an all-electric taxi fleet and an aggressive bid to lure disgruntled passengers and drivers from the incumbents.<\/p>\n<p>A clean energy push by Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government is expected to significantly change India&#8217;s transport industry in years ahead, with major implications for ride-hailing firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian ride-hailing startup BluSmart is seeking to challenge Uber and Ola for market share in the country with bets on an all-electric taxi fleet and an aggressive bid to lure disgruntled passengers and drivers from the incumbents. A clean energy push by Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government is expected to significantly change India&#8217;s transport industry in years ahead, with major implications for ride-hailing firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570596","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}