{"id":15263,"date":"2024-07-24T13:37:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T11:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/high-quality-low-price-and-dizzying-variety-how-the-chinese-switched-to-electric-cars\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T13:37:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T11:37:38","slug":"high-quality-low-price-and-dizzying-variety-how-the-chinese-switched-to-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/high-quality-low-price-and-dizzying-variety-how-the-chinese-switched-to-electric-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018High quality, low price and dizzying variety\u2019: how the Chinese switched to electric cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country has long been the world\u2019s biggest market \u2013 but the government\u2019s interest is more geopolitical than environmental<\/p>\n<p>When Kenzi, an advertising worker in Shanghai, bought an electric vehicle in November she wasn\u2019t even thinking about the environmental benefits. She had read Elon Musk\u2019s biography and thought the Tesla 3 looked good. She also knew that if she bought an EV she could bypass the long wait and cost of getting licence plates, which are rationed by the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not easy to get a licence plate in Shanghai, but you get a licence for free when you buy an EV,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/jul\/24\/high-quality-low-price-and-dizzying-variety-how-the-chinese-switched-to-electric-cars\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c180da25486e0ce182a6496ab4d97b8620773cc8\/0_137_4160_2496\/master\/4160.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=63798dcb37e286aebae31631c63c26ef\" title=\"\u2018High quality, low price and dizzying variety\u2019: how the Chinese switched to electric cars\" \/>The country has long been the world\u2019s biggest market \u2013 but the government\u2019s interest is more geopolitical than environmental<br \/>\nWhen Kenzi, an advertising worker in Shanghai, bought an electric vehicle in November she wasn\u2019t even thinking about the environmental benefits. She had read Elon Musk\u2019s biography and thought the Tesla 3 looked good. She also knew that if she bought an EV she could bypass the long wait and cost of getting licence plates, which are rationed by the government.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s not easy to get a licence plate in Shanghai, but you get a licence for free when you buy an EV,\u201d she said. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country has long been the world\u2019s biggest market \u2013 but the government\u2019s interest is more geopolitical than environmental When Kenzi, an advertising worker in Shanghai, bought an electric vehicle in November she wasn\u2019t even thinking about the environmental benefits. She had read Elon Musk\u2019s biography and thought the Tesla 3 looked good. She also &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/high-quality-low-price-and-dizzying-variety-how-the-chinese-switched-to-electric-cars\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018High quality, low price and dizzying variety\u2019: how the Chinese switched to electric cars<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}