{"id":74245,"date":"2025-10-28T16:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:31:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:31:03","slug":"gst-relief-fuels-india-s-car-upgrade-wave-ev-optimism-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=74245","title":{"rendered":"GST relief fuels India\u2019s car upgrade wave, EV optimism, says study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GST relief fuels India\u2019s car upgrade wave, EV optimism, says study<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 28-10-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Mumbai, Oct 28 (PTI) While GST reductions on cars fueled a rebound in sales in the festive season, around 80 per cent of buyers surveyed used the tax relief to switch to a higher model, better brand, or premium add-ons, rather than saving the difference, a study has found.<br \/>\n The study by consumer-intelligence and market-research platform SmyttenPulse AI stated that SUVs remain the popular choice for buyers, while environmental consciousness is driving a sharp rise in EV consideration despite infrastructure gaps.<br \/>\n The \u2018Post GST Car Buying Behaviour trends\u2019 study was conducted among more than 5,000 people in October 2025 across Tie<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=59970\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GST relief fuels India\u2019s car upgrade wave, EV optimism, says studyGSTDated:- 28-10-2025PTIMumbai, Oct 28 (PTI) While GST reductions on cars fueled a rebound in sales in the festive season, around 80 per cent of buyers surveyed used the tax relief to switc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}