{"id":21026,"date":"2017-12-25T14:29:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T13:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/25\/electric-and-plug-in-hybrid-cars-whiz-passed-3m-mark-worldwide\/"},"modified":"2017-12-25T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T13:29:29","slug":"electric-and-plug-in-hybrid-cars-whiz-passed-3m-mark-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=21026","title":{"rendered":"Electric and plug-in hybrid cars whiz passed 3m mark worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid growth is due to falling battery costs, government incentives and car makers competing to build new modelsThe number of fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars on the world\u2019s roads has passed the 3m mark, as manufacturers ramp up their plans for mass production of battery-powered vehicles. Industry watchers said the milestone was passed in November, with the growth rate indicating that electric car sales are now running at around 1m a year. The rapid growth is being driven by government incentives, manufacturers launching models for a wider mix of drivers and falling battery costs. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/dec\/25\/electric-and-plug-in-hybrid-cars-3m-worldwide\" target=\"_blank\">Electric and plug-in hybrid cars whiz passed 3m mark worldwide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid growth is due to falling battery costs, government incentives and car makers competing to build new modelsThe number of fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars on the world\u2019s roads has passed the 3m mark, as manufacturers ramp up their plans for mass production of battery-powered vehicles. Industry watchers said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}