{"id":412849,"date":"2021-04-30T10:51:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T05:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=412849"},"modified":"2021-04-30T10:51:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T05:21:09","slug":"electric-car-sales-rose-41-in-2020-despite-covid-19-hurting-global-car-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electric-car-sales-rose-41-in-2020-despite-covid-19-hurting-global-car-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric car sales rose 41% in 2020, despite COVID-19 hurting global car sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electric car sales rose 41% in 2020 despite the pandemic-induced economic downturn that drove down global car sales by 6%, according to the latest report by the International Energy Agency (IEA).<\/p>\n<p>Electric cars made up 4.6% of overall car sales in 2020. Consumers spent $120 billion, 50% more than the previous year, to buy a record 3 million electric cars. In 2020, the global average battery electric vehicle (BEV) price was around $40 000 and around $50 000 for a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric car sales rose 41% in 2020 despite the pandemic-induced economic downturn that drove down global car sales by 6%, according to the latest report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Electric cars made up 4.6% of overall car sales in 2020. Consumers spent $120 billion, 50% more than the previous year, to buy a record 3 million electric cars. In 2020, the global average battery electric vehicle (BEV) price was around $40 000 and around $50 000 for a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-412849","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\/412849","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}