{"id":410432,"date":"2021-04-13T08:38:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T03:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410432"},"modified":"2021-04-13T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:09:09","slug":"once-green-plug-in-hybrid-cars-suddenly-look-like-dinosaurs-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/once-green-plug-in-hybrid-cars-suddenly-look-like-dinosaurs-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Once &#8216;green&#8217; plug-in hybrid cars suddenly look like dinosaurs in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when plug-in hybrid cars were the go-to technology for the climate-conscious driver? Turns out, they&#8217;re not good for the environment, according to some experts, and they could be phased out by carmakers in the face of tougher European rules. <\/p>\n<p>EU policy plans for plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs), which contain an electric battery and a combustion engine, could mean the &#8220;transition&#8221; technology has a shorter lifespan than envisaged by some leading automakers.<\/p>\n<p>Draft green finance regulations would ban manufacturers from labelling them as &#8220;sustainable investments&#8221; beyond 2025, potentially deterring investors. Meanwhile planned rules on emissions of pollutants like nitrogen oxides could increase the cost of producing these cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when plug-in hybrid cars were the go-to technology for the climate-conscious driver? Turns out, they&#8217;re not good for the environment, according to some experts, and they could be phased out by carmakers in the face of tougher European rules. EU policy plans for plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs), which contain an electric battery and a combustion engine, could mean the &#8220;transition&#8221; technology has a shorter lifespan than envisaged by some leading automakers. Draft green finance regulations would ban manufacturers from labelling them as &#8220;sustainable investments&#8221; beyond 2025, potentially deterring investors. Meanwhile planned rules on emissions of pollutants like nitrogen oxides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410432","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}