{"id":47994,"date":"2025-06-23T03:51:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=47994"},"modified":"2025-06-23T03:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:52:01","slug":"how-china-made-electric-vehicles-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=47994","title":{"rendered":"How China made electric vehicles mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I drive an electric vehicle because I am poor,&#8221; says Lu Yunfeng, a private hire driver, who is at a charging station on the outskirts of Guangzhou in the south of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Standing nearby, Sun Jingguo agrees. &#8220;The cost of driving a petrol car is too expensive. I save money driving an electric vehicle,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Also, it protects the environment,&#8221; he adds, leaning against his white Beijing U7 model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s the kind of conversation climate campaigners dream of hearing. In many countries, electric vehicles (EVs) are considered luxury purchases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But here in China &#8211; where almost half of all cars sold last year were electric &#8211; it&#8217;s a banal reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: &#8220;I drive an electric vehicle because I am poor,&#8221; says Lu Yunfeng, a private hire driver, who is at a charging station on the outskirts of Guangzhou in the south of China. Standing nearby, Sun Jingguo agrees. &#8220;The cost of driving a petrol car is too expensive. I save money driving an electric vehicle,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Also, it protects the environment,&#8221; he adds, leaning against his white Beijing U7 model. It&#8217;s the kind of conversation climate campaigners dream of hearing. In many countries, electric vehicles (EVs) are considered luxury purchases. But here in China &#8211; where almost half of&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47996,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47994\/revisions\/47996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}