{"id":348665,"date":"2026-03-16T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/dealerships-sue-volkswagen-over-plans-to-sell-scout-plug-in-vehicles-directly-to-consumers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:45:07","slug":"dealerships-sue-volkswagen-over-plans-to-sell-scout-plug-in-vehicles-directly-to-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/dealerships-sue-volkswagen-over-plans-to-sell-scout-plug-in-vehicles-directly-to-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealerships sue Volkswagen over plans to sell Scout plug-in vehicles directly to consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/dealerships-sue-volkswagen-over-plans-to-sell-scout-plug-in-vehicles-directly-to-consumers.jpg' alt='' ><br \/>In the Internet Age, consumers have gotten used to buying products directly from their makers, and many see the traditional arrangement by which automakers can sell their wares only through independent dealerships as a vestige of a previous century. \u201cNot so!\u201d say dealers. \u201cWe provide essential product information and after-sales service.\u201d But EVs require less&#8230;   <a href=https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/newswire\/dealerships-sue-volkswagen-over-plans-to-sell-scout-plug-in-vehicles-directly-to-consumers\/ target=bwindow>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/dealerships-sue-volkswagen-over-plans-to-sell-scout-plug-in-vehicles-directly-to-consumers.jpg' alt=''><br \/>In the Internet Age, consumers have gotten used to buying products directly from their makers, and many see the traditional arrangement by which automakers can sell their wares only through independent dealerships as a vestige of a previous century. \u201cNot so!\u201d say dealers. \u201cWe provide essential product information and after-sales service.\u201d But EVs require less&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/dealerships-sue-volkswagen-over-plans-to-sell-scout-plug-in-vehicles-directly-to-consumers\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":348666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charged-evs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348665","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}