{"id":359505,"date":"2026-08-12T15:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/early-switch-to-evs-delivers-significant-climate-benefits\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:05:51","slug":"early-switch-to-evs-delivers-significant-climate-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/early-switch-to-evs-delivers-significant-climate-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Early switch to EVs delivers significant climate benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/08\/early-switch-to-evs-delivers-significant-climate-benefits.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Auspuff exhaust benzin gasoline diesel unsplash min e\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" title=\"auspuff exhaust benzin gasoline diesel unsplash 2021 01 min e1705590715687\"><\/div>\n<p>Continuing to drive a functional combustion-engine car rather than replacing it with an electric vehicle is not necessarily the more climate-friendly option. A US study finds that switching to an electric car reduces emissions in 92 per cent of the modelled scenarios. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/08\/12\/early-switch-to-evs-delivers-significant-climate-benefits\/ target=_blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing to drive a functional combustion-engine car rather than replacing it with an electric vehicle is not necessarily the more climate-friendly option. A US study finds that switching to an electric car reduces emissions in 92 per cent of the modelled scenarios&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/early-switch-to-evs-delivers-significant-climate-benefits\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":359506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359505","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}