{"id":354581,"date":"2026-05-27T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/a-new-ev-brand-backed-by-5-companies-wants-to-shake-up-japans-cheap-mini-car-market\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:00:05","slug":"a-new-ev-brand-backed-by-5-companies-wants-to-shake-up-japans-cheap-mini-car-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/a-new-ev-brand-backed-by-5-companies-wants-to-shake-up-japans-cheap-mini-car-market\/","title":{"rendered":"A new EV brand backed by 5 companies wants to shake up Japan\u2019s cheap mini car market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/a-new-ev-brand-backed-by-5-companies-wants-to-shake-up-japans-cheap-mini-car-market.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>BYD isn\u2019t the only Chinese brand that wants to crack open Japan\u2019s kei car market. Five companies, including China\u2019s Chery Automotive and Japanese car parts giant Autobacs Seven, launched a new EV brand that will launch its first vehicle next year with prices on par with gas cars. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/05\/27\/new-ev-brand-shake-up-japans-cheap-mini-car-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\/a-new-ev-brand-backed-by-5-companies-wants-to-shake-up-japans-cheap-mini-car-market\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":354582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354581","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\/354581","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=354581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}