{"id":352220,"date":"2026-04-18T17:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/in-the-uk-evs-are-cheaper-than-petrol-cars-thanks-to-chinese-competition\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T17:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:06:14","slug":"in-the-uk-evs-are-cheaper-than-petrol-cars-thanks-to-chinese-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/in-the-uk-evs-are-cheaper-than-petrol-cars-thanks-to-chinese-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/in-the-uk-evs-are-cheaper-than-petrol-cars-thanks-to-chinese-competition.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s long been cheaper to own an electric car, due to lower fueling costs. But the upfront cost is now lower, according to UK\u2019s largest auto-buying website Autotrader, and reported by The Guardian. And a large part of it is because of the availability of low-cost Chinese EVs, which are unavailable or subject to tariffs in many other countries. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/04\/18\/in-the-uk-evs-are-cheaper-than-petrol-cars-thanks-to-chinese-competition\/ 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\/in-the-uk-evs-are-cheaper-than-petrol-cars-thanks-to-chinese-competition\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":352221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352220","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\/352220","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=352220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}