{"id":346891,"date":"2026-02-23T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/taiwan-began-paying-people-to-switch-to-electric-scooters-and-cars-heres-what-happened\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:00:07","slug":"taiwan-began-paying-people-to-switch-to-electric-scooters-and-cars-heres-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/taiwan-began-paying-people-to-switch-to-electric-scooters-and-cars-heres-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan began paying people to switch to electric scooters and cars. Here\u2019s what happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/taiwan-began-paying-people-to-switch-to-electric-scooters-and-cars-heres-what-happened.jpg\" \/>If you\u2019ve ever stood at a red light in Taipei, you know that when it turns green, it\u2019s not just cars that surge forward \u2013 it\u2019s a tidal wave of scooters. In Taiwan, scooters are a way of life, outnumbering cars by roughly two to one. That also means they represent one of the country\u2019s biggest transportation-related pollution sources. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/02\/22\/taiwan-began-paying-people-to-switch-to-electric-scooters-and-cars-heres-what-happened\/ 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\/taiwan-began-paying-people-to-switch-to-electric-scooters-and-cars-heres-what-happened\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":346892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346891","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\/346891","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=346891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}