{"id":660109,"date":"2026-04-14T11:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660109"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:23:28","slug":"a-delhi-template-for-the-electrification-of-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/a-delhi-template-for-the-electrification-of-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"A Delhi template for the electrification of transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi continues to rank among the most polluted capitals on Earth, and vehicular emissions are a major culprit. The impact of vehicle pollution on public health is well documented. Citizens face increased risks of asthma and cardiovascular diseases, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and reduced life expectancy. Vulnerable communities living near high-traffic corridors are disproportionately affected. Against this backdrop, the Delhi government\u2019s newly-released draft EV Policy 2026 does something previous policies didn\u2019t dare: It stops asking people to go electric and starts requiring it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi continues to rank among the most polluted capitals on Earth, and vehicular emissions are a major culprit. The impact of vehicle pollution on public health is well documented. Citizens face increased risks of asthma and cardiovascular diseases, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and reduced life expectancy. Vulnerable communities living near high-traffic corridors are disproportionately affected. Against this backdrop, the Delhi government\u2019s newly-released draft EV Policy 2026 does something previous policies didn\u2019t dare: It stops asking people to go electric and starts requiring it.<\/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-660109","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\/660109","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=660109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}