{"id":359729,"date":"2026-08-15T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/as-ev-sales-oil-costs-and-wildfires-spike-uk-govt-considers-fewer-evs-update\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:04:09","slug":"as-ev-sales-oil-costs-and-wildfires-spike-uk-govt-considers-fewer-evs-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/as-ev-sales-oil-costs-and-wildfires-spike-uk-govt-considers-fewer-evs-update\/","title":{"rendered":"As EV sales, oil costs and wildfires spike, UK gov\u2019t considers.. fewer EVs? (update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/08\/as-ev-sales-oil-costs-and-wildfires-spike-uk-govt-considers-fewer-evs-update.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>The UK government is considering relaxing its landmark electric vehicle rules, even in the face of inflated oil prices, a recordbreaking year for temperatures and wildfires, and EV sales that are already rising fast enough to meet the government\u2019s current target. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/08\/14\/ev-sales-oil-costs-and-temperatures-are-spiking-so-uk-govt-pushes-more-gas\/ 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\/as-ev-sales-oil-costs-and-wildfires-spike-uk-govt-considers-fewer-evs-update\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":359730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359729","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\/359729","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=359729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}