{"id":358107,"date":"2026-07-22T16:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/this-country-went-100-electric-vehicles-overnight-with-a-drastic-approach\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:03:26","slug":"this-country-went-100-electric-vehicles-overnight-with-a-drastic-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/this-country-went-100-electric-vehicles-overnight-with-a-drastic-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"This country went 100% electric vehicles overnight with a drastic approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/07\/this-country-went-100-electric-vehicles-overnight-with-a-drastic-approach.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Laos did something no other country has tried: it banned the import of new gas and diesel passenger cars outright. As of June 1, nearly every new car cleared for import has to be electric. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/07\/22\/laos-bans-gas-diesel-car-imports-ev\/ 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\/this-country-went-100-electric-vehicles-overnight-with-a-drastic-approach\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":358108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358107","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\/358107","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=358107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}