{"id":597966,"date":"2023-08-17T10:20:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T04:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=597966"},"modified":"2023-08-17T10:20:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T04:50:29","slug":"top-4-e-scooter-makers-refund-%e2%82%b910-crore-to-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/top-4-e-scooter-makers-refund-%e2%82%b910-crore-to-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 4 e-scooter makers refund \u20b910 crore to buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s top four electric two-wheeler makers, which were found to have violated norms by billing customers for the charger and proprietary software separately from the scooter, have so far collectively paid about \u20b910 crore to customers of the more than \u20b9300 crore they had agreed to refund.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, a government probe into customer complaints had found that Ola Electric, Ather Energy, TVS Motor and Hero MotoCorp were billing their charger and proprietary software as an add-on to their electric scooters in a bid to lower the reported sale price of their products and be eligible for subsidies under a government programme that seeks to promote local manufacturing and faster adoption of electric vehicles (EVs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s top four electric two-wheeler makers, which were found to have violated norms by billing customers for the charger and proprietary software separately from the scooter, have so far collectively paid about \u20b910 crore to customers of the more than \u20b9300 crore they had agreed to refund. Earlier this year, a government probe into customer complaints had found that Ola Electric, Ather Energy, TVS Motor and Hero MotoCorp were billing their charger and proprietary software as an add-on to their electric scooters in a bid to lower the reported sale price of their products and be eligible for subsidies under [&hellip;]<\/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-597966","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\/597966","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=597966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}