{"id":596481,"date":"2023-08-08T09:38:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T04:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=596481"},"modified":"2023-08-08T10:04:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T04:34:57","slug":"centre-to-scrap-tender-for-4675-e-buses-amidst-lacklustre-oem-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-to-scrap-tender-for-4675-e-buses-amidst-lacklustre-oem-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre to scrap tender for 4,675 e-buses amidst lacklustre OEM response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u2019s ambitious plan to replace polluting diesel buses at public transporters with electric buses has hit a speed bump. Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL), the state-run company that handles the acquisition of electric vehicles for central and state government departments, is considering cancelling its dry lease tender for 4,675 e-buses after a disappointing response from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Business Standard has learnt. <\/p>\n<p>The tender, issued on January 4 under the National Electric Bus Programme (NEBP) Phase-II, failed to attract bids from established automobile makers such as Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, and PMI Electro Mobility, leading to speculation about its cancellation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u2019s ambitious plan to replace polluting diesel buses at public transporters with electric buses has hit a speed bump. Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL), the state-run company that handles the acquisition of electric vehicles for central and state government departments, is considering cancelling its dry lease tender for 4,675 e-buses after a disappointing response from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Business Standard has learnt. The tender, issued on January 4 under the National Electric Bus Programme (NEBP) Phase-II, failed to attract bids from established automobile makers such as Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, and PMI Electro Mobility, leading to speculation about [&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-596481","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\/596481","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=596481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}