{"id":616824,"date":"2023-11-13T10:09:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T04:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=616824"},"modified":"2023-11-13T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T05:07:10","slug":"are-electric-cars-the-silver-bullet-for-meeting-indias-greenhouse-gas-emission-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/are-electric-cars-the-silver-bullet-for-meeting-indias-greenhouse-gas-emission-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Are electric cars the silver bullet for meeting India\u2019s greenhouse gas emission goals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decarbonisation of the transportation sector\u2014the world\u2019s second highest contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions\u2014is critical to mitigate climate change. Most European and North American nations and China have settled on vehicle electrification as the best GHG reduction strategy. <\/p>\n<p>The Government of India, too, has provided subsidies for electric cars (e-cars), but whether their adoption is the best way to decarbonise the transport sector requires further exploration. It is crucial to note that India\u2019s market and infrastructure conditions are different from those in Europe and North America in two major ways and therefore require unique strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decarbonisation of the transportation sector\u2014the world\u2019s second highest contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions\u2014is critical to mitigate climate change. Most European and North American nations and China have settled on vehicle electrification as the best GHG reduction strategy. The Government of India, too, has provided subsidies for electric cars (e-cars), but whether their adoption is the best way to decarbonise the transport sector requires further exploration. It is crucial to note that India\u2019s market and infrastructure conditions are different from those in Europe and North America in two major ways and therefore require unique strategies.<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616824","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=616824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}