{"id":653238,"date":"2025-11-19T11:36:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=653238"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:06:31","slug":"why-electric-vehicles-still-cant-make-dent-in-petrol-diesel-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-electric-vehicles-still-cant-make-dent-in-petrol-diesel-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Electric Vehicles Still Can\u2019t Make Dent In Petrol-Diesel Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: An analysis of total registered vehicles in Delhi, categorised by fuel type, shows a mixed uptake for electric vehicles (EVs). While EVs are increasing in categories like three-wheelers, goods vehicles, e-buses and e-rickshaws, their penetration is too small to make a dent in petrol and diesel vehicles, which are a major source of pollution in Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, from Jan to Sept in 2024, 2.7 lakh petrol two-wheelers and 26,613 electric two-wheelers were registered. During the same period, 3.2 lakh petrol two-wheelers, including ethanol-blended petrol, and 27,028 electric two-wheelers were registered this year, shows govt&#8217;s Vahan data analysed by think tank EnviroCatalysts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: An analysis of total registered vehicles in Delhi, categorised by fuel type, shows a mixed uptake for electric vehicles (EVs). While EVs are increasing in categories like three-wheelers, goods vehicles, e-buses and e-rickshaws, their penetration is too small to make a dent in petrol and diesel vehicles, which are a major source of pollution in Delhi. For instance, from Jan to Sept in 2024, 2.7 lakh petrol two-wheelers and 26,613 electric two-wheelers were registered. During the same period, 3.2 lakh petrol two-wheelers, including ethanol-blended petrol, and 27,028 electric two-wheelers were registered this year, shows govt&#8217;s Vahan data analysed [&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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653238","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=653238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}