{"id":277086,"date":"2023-12-06T16:36:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T16:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/should-we-all-embrace-japans-kei-car-model-small-cheap-but-not-exactly-safe\/"},"modified":"2023-12-06T16:36:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T16:36:20","slug":"should-we-all-embrace-japans-kei-car-model-small-cheap-but-not-exactly-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/should-we-all-embrace-japans-kei-car-model-small-cheap-but-not-exactly-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we all embrace Japan\u2019s kei car model \u2013 small, cheap, but not exactly safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/should-we-all-embrace-japans-kei-car-model-small-cheap-but-not-exactly-safe.jpg\"><br \/>\nA new breed of electric vehicles is drawing inspiration from Japanese kei cars, tiny cubes-on-wheels that are highway-legal but not likely to pass muster with US or EU safety standards. But what if we loosened up those standards to help lower prices, enabling broader adoption of EVs to people who don\u2019t have 30 grand or more to spend on a car? That is, at least, one of the ideas that French automaker Renault\u2019s head Luca de Meo has put on the table.\u00c2. <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2023\/12\/06\/should-we-all-embrace-japans-kei-car-model-small-cheap-but-not-exactly-safe\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/should-we-all-embrace-japans-kei-car-model-small-cheap-but-not-exactly-safe\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":277087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}