{"id":353737,"date":"2026-05-13T06:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/the-ice-age-is-over-gas-car-sales-drop-37-in-worlds-biggest-market\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:03:06","slug":"the-ice-age-is-over-gas-car-sales-drop-37-in-worlds-biggest-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/the-ice-age-is-over-gas-car-sales-drop-37-in-worlds-biggest-market\/","title":{"rendered":"The ICE age is over: gas car sales drop 37% in world\u2019s biggest market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/the-ice-age-is-over-gas-car-sales-drop-37-in-worlds-biggest-market.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Gas car sales have collapsed in the world\u2019s largest auto market, dropping 37% year-over-year in April. As a result, 9 of the top 10 vehicles in China last month were plug-ins, with only a single one on the list sporting an ICE-only configuration. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/05\/12\/the-ice-age-is-over-gas-car-sales-drop-37-in-worlds-biggest-market\/ 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\/the-ice-age-is-over-gas-car-sales-drop-37-in-worlds-biggest-market\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":353738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353737","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\/353737","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=353737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}