{"id":602415,"date":"2023-09-08T09:38:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T04:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=602415"},"modified":"2023-09-08T11:12:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T05:42:08","slug":"heavy-industries-ministry-scraps-human-safety-tests-for-ev-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/heavy-industries-ministry-scraps-human-safety-tests-for-ev-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy industries&#8217; ministry scraps human safety tests for EV batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Wednesday scrapped the mandatory human safety tests for electric vehicle (EV) batteries required to qualify for incentives under various government schemes.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry of heavy industries, in its fresh guidelines, has made compliance with the ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH\u2019s) prevailing EV battery testing standards the only requirement to get incentives under the Centre\u2019s various incentive schemes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEV safety and battery safety compliance requirements have already seen stringent standards notified by the ministry of road transport and highways. Therefore, the above compliance is adequate and to be followed,\u201d the ministry of heavy industries guidelines said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Wednesday scrapped the mandatory human safety tests for electric vehicle (EV) batteries required to qualify for incentives under various government schemes. The ministry of heavy industries, in its fresh guidelines, has made compliance with the ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH\u2019s) prevailing EV battery testing standards the only requirement to get incentives under the Centre\u2019s various incentive schemes. \u201cEV safety and battery safety compliance requirements have already seen stringent standards notified by the ministry of road transport and highways. Therefore, the above compliance is adequate and to be followed,\u201d the ministry of heavy industries guidelines 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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602415","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\/602415","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=602415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}