{"id":291411,"date":"2019-09-13T05:04:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T05:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291411"},"modified":"2019-09-13T05:04:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T05:04:55","slug":"carmakers-are-rolling-out-more-electric-vehicles-but-who-is-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/carmakers-are-rolling-out-more-electric-vehicles-but-who-is-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmakers are rolling out more electric vehicles, but who is buying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It only took a decade for traditional automakers to take electric cars seriously and offer more than a smattering of test-the-water models.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes the hard part: Getting consumers to buy them.<\/p>\n<p>At Frankfurt\u2019s 2019 car show, Volkswagen AG Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess laid it on thick, calling on governments to give up coal-fired power as he unveiled the electric ID.3 car-for-the-masses. At the Mercedes-Benz stand, where the Daimler AG brand was showing the prototype of an electric S-Class sibling, real beech trees framed massive screens displaying schools of digital fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It only took a decade for traditional automakers to take electric cars seriously and offer more than a smattering of test-the-water models. Now comes the hard part: Getting consumers to buy them. At Frankfurt\u2019s 2019 car show, Volkswagen AG Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess laid it on thick, calling on governments to give up coal-fired power as he unveiled the electric ID.3 car-for-the-masses. At the Mercedes-Benz stand, where the Daimler AG brand was showing the prototype of an electric S-Class sibling, real beech trees framed massive screens displaying schools of digital fish.<\/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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291411","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=291411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}