{"id":619266,"date":"2023-11-24T12:14:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T06:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=619266"},"modified":"2023-11-24T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T06:44:55","slug":"chandigarh-admn-shifts-gears-removes-cap-on-non-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chandigarh-admn-shifts-gears-removes-cap-on-non-evs\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandigarh admn shifts gears, removes cap on non-EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caving in to pressure from various quarters, the UT administration on Thursday removed the cap on registration of all non-electric vehicles, a major feature of its ambitious Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy.<\/p>\n<p>UT had rolled out the five-year policy in September 2022, with plans to gradually stop registering fuel-run vehicles to dissuade people from buying vehicles that cause pollution. This was part of its larger plan to make Chandigarh a \u201cModel EV City\u201d by achieving one of the highest penetrations of zero-emission vehicles by 2027.<\/p>\n<p>But amid sharp criticism from automobile dealers and buyers, UT was forced to revise the cap on non-electric vehicles thrice this year \u2014 on July 3, October 18 and November 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caving in to pressure from various quarters, the UT administration on Thursday removed the cap on registration of all non-electric vehicles, a major feature of its ambitious Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy. UT had rolled out the five-year policy in September 2022, with plans to gradually stop registering fuel-run vehicles to dissuade people from buying vehicles that cause pollution. This was part of its larger plan to make Chandigarh a \u201cModel EV City\u201d by achieving one of the highest penetrations of zero-emission vehicles by 2027. But amid sharp criticism from automobile dealers and buyers, UT was forced to revise the cap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619266","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}