{"id":601317,"date":"2023-09-02T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T05:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=601317"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:34:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T07:04:44","slug":"call-to-exempt-evs-from-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/call-to-exempt-evs-from-tolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Call to exempt EVs from tolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: Cab aggregators and bus operators have sought a reduction in charging fee and an exemption of tolls as an incentive to promote electric vehicles in the state. <\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s electric vehicle policy of 2023 had several lacunae in providing adequate incentives and creating infrastructure, said R Dharmaraj of the Bus and Car operators Confederation of India, during a panel discussion on electric mobility. The event was held by ITDP and Climate Trends. \u201cElectric buses should be exempted from tolls as a part of the policy to incentivize conversion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: Cab aggregators and bus operators have sought a reduction in charging fee and an exemption of tolls as an incentive to promote electric vehicles in the state. The government\u2019s electric vehicle policy of 2023 had several lacunae in providing adequate incentives and creating infrastructure, said R Dharmaraj of the Bus and Car operators Confederation of India, during a panel discussion on electric mobility. The event was held by ITDP and Climate Trends. \u201cElectric buses should be exempted from tolls as a part of the policy to incentivize conversion,\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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601317","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\/601317","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=601317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}