{"id":84076,"date":"2018-10-26T02:23:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/indias-rickshaw-revolution-leaves-china-in-the-dust"},"modified":"2018-10-26T02:23:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:23:09","slug":"indias-rickshaw-revolution-leaves-china-in-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/indias-rickshaw-revolution-leaves-china-in-the-dust","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Rickshaw Revolution Leaves China in the Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/indias-rickshaw-revolution-leaves-china-in-the-dust.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s administration now is pivoting toward promoting EVs in public transportation and fleet operations \u2013 primarily, two- and three-wheelers, taxis and buses. The Ministry of Finance is finalizing a plan to spend about 40 billion rupees ($600 million) in the next five years to improve the nation\u2019s charging infrastructure and subsidize e-buses.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An electric-vehicle revolution is gaining ground in India, and it has nothing to do with cars.<\/p>\n<p>The South Asian nation is home to about 1.5 million battery-powered, three-wheeled rickshaws \u2013 a fleet bigger than the total number of electric passenger cars sold in China since 2011. But while the world\u2019s largest auto market dangled significant subsidies to encourage purchases of battery-powered cars, India\u2019s e-movement hardly got a hand from the state.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, drivers of the ubiquitous three-wheelers weaving through crowded, smoggy streets discovered that e-rickshaws are quieter, faster, cleaner and cheaper to maintain than a traditional auto rickshaw. They also are less strenuous than cycle rickshaws, which require all-day peddling. So with more rides possible in a day, the e-rickshaws are proving more lucrative.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2018-10-25\/india-s-rickshaws-outnumber-china-s-electric-vehicles\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2018&#45;10&#45;25\/i...c-vehicles<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s administration now is pivoting toward promoting EVs in public transportation and fleet operations \u2013 primarily, two- and three-wheelers, taxis and buses. The Ministry of Finance is finalizing a plan to spend about 40 billion rupees ($600 million) in the next five years to improve the nation\u2019s charging infrastructure and subsidize e-buses. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}