{"id":346199,"date":"2026-02-13T00:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/europe-surges-us-stumbles-china-cools-ev-sales-dip-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:39:25","slug":"europe-surges-us-stumbles-china-cools-ev-sales-dip-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/europe-surges-us-stumbles-china-cools-ev-sales-dip-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe surges, US stumbles, China cools: EV sales dip in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/europe-surges-us-stumbles-china-cools-ev-sales-dip-in-2026.jpg\" \/>1.2 million EVs were sold globally in January \u2013 but the market shrank.\u00a0Global EV sales fell 3% year-over-year and 44% in January 2026 from December to 1.2 million units, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. The slowdown was largely driven by China, where sales dropped after new taxes and weaker incentives kicked in. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/02\/12\/europe-surges-us-stumbles-china-cools-ev-sales-dip-in-2026\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/europe-surges-us-stumbles-china-cools-ev-sales-dip-in-2026\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":346200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346199","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\/346199","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=346199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}