{"id":574549,"date":"2023-05-04T11:21:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T05:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=574549"},"modified":"2023-05-04T12:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T06:54:35","slug":"after-india-south-korea-calls-for-strict-safety-standards-over-ev-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/after-india-south-korea-calls-for-strict-safety-standards-over-ev-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"After India, South Korea calls for strict safety standards over EV fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After India, the government and car manufacturers in South Korea have to put a bigger focus on the safety of battery packs as a series of recent battery fires may drive down demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and have a negative impact on the burgeoning EV market, according to experts. <\/p>\n<p>South Korea currently has about 400,000 registered EVs, accounting for 1.6 per cent of the country&#8217;s registered passenger and commercial vehicles, amid automakers&#8217; accelerating electrification push in recent years. <\/p>\n<p>But battery fires in some EV models have sparked grave concerns among consumers over the safety of pure electric cars, reports Yonhap News Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After India, the government and car manufacturers in South Korea have to put a bigger focus on the safety of battery packs as a series of recent battery fires may drive down demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and have a negative impact on the burgeoning EV market, according to experts. South Korea currently has about 400,000 registered EVs, accounting for 1.6 per cent of the country&#8217;s registered passenger and commercial vehicles, amid automakers&#8217; accelerating electrification push in recent years. But battery fires in some EV models have sparked grave concerns among consumers over the safety of pure electric cars, reports [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574549","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=574549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}