{"id":482243,"date":"2022-04-05T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T04:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=482243"},"modified":"2022-04-05T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T04:49:14","slug":"chinas-byd-ends-full-combustion-engine-cars-to-focus-on-electric-plug-in-hybrids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-byd-ends-full-combustion-engine-cars-to-focus-on-electric-plug-in-hybrids\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s BYD ends full combustion engine cars to focus on electric, plug-in hybrids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s largest electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD Co Ltd (002594.SZ) said that as of last month it stopped making combustion engine vehicles and now produces full electric and heavily electrified plug-in hybrid cars only.<br \/>\n&#8220;In the future, BYD will focus on pure electric and plug-in hybrids in the automobile sector,&#8221; the company said in a statement filed to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Sunday.<br \/>\nBYD will not completely stop making gasoline engines since smaller highly efficient engines will continue to be used in plug-in hybrid cars.<br \/>\nIts move is in response to Beijing&#8217;s pledge to boost green energy consumption to bring carbon emissions to a peak by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s largest electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD Co Ltd (002594.SZ) said that as of last month it stopped making combustion engine vehicles and now produces full electric and heavily electrified plug-in hybrid cars only. &#8220;In the future, BYD will focus on pure electric and plug-in hybrids in the automobile sector,&#8221; the company said in a statement filed to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Sunday. BYD will not completely stop making gasoline engines since smaller highly efficient engines will continue to be used in plug-in hybrid cars. Its move is in response to Beijing&#8217;s pledge to boost green energy consumption [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482243","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=482243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}