{"id":649747,"date":"2025-10-22T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=649747"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:05:00","slug":"karnataka-leads-electric-vehicle-push-with-plan-for-1500-charging-stations-under-pm-e-drive-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/karnataka-leads-electric-vehicle-push-with-plan-for-1500-charging-stations-under-pm-e-drive-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka leads electric vehicle push with plan for 1,500 charging stations under PM E-Drive scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Riding on the success of the electric two- and three-wheeler revolution, Karnataka is now accelerating efforts to electrify heavy vehicles, particularly buses and trucks. The govt is preparing to submit a detailed proposal under the Centre&#8217;s PM E-Drive scheme to establish 1,500 high-capacity EV charging stations across the state, each supporting fast charging in the 60kW to 240kW range \u2014 sufficient to power heavy vehicles for long-distance operations.<\/p>\n<p>The move marks the next phase in Karnataka&#8217;s electric mobility expansion as it looks beyond lighter vehicles to include e-buses and e-trucks in its electrification drive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Riding on the success of the electric two- and three-wheeler revolution, Karnataka is now accelerating efforts to electrify heavy vehicles, particularly buses and trucks. The govt is preparing to submit a detailed proposal under the Centre&#8217;s PM E-Drive scheme to establish 1,500 high-capacity EV charging stations across the state, each supporting fast charging in the 60kW to 240kW range \u2014 sufficient to power heavy vehicles for long-distance operations. The move marks the next phase in Karnataka&#8217;s electric mobility expansion as it looks beyond lighter vehicles to include e-buses and e-trucks in its electrification drive.<\/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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649747","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\/649747","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=649747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}