{"id":410505,"date":"2021-04-13T10:26:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410505"},"modified":"2021-04-13T12:08:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T06:38:44","slug":"once-green-plug-in-hybrid-cars-suddenly-look-like-dinosaurs-in-europe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/once-green-plug-in-hybrid-cars-suddenly-look-like-dinosaurs-in-europe-2\/","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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410505","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=410505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}