{"id":361004,"date":"2026-09-03T20:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/bevs-outsold-every-powertrain-in-august-so-why-is-uk-trying-to-roll-back-targets\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T20:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:06:01","slug":"bevs-outsold-every-powertrain-in-august-so-why-is-uk-trying-to-roll-back-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/bevs-outsold-every-powertrain-in-august-so-why-is-uk-trying-to-roll-back-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"BEVs outsold every powertrain in August, so why is UK trying to roll back targets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/09\/bevs-outsold-every-powertrain-in-august-so-why-is-uk-trying-to-roll-back-targets.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>August sales numbers from the UK show a rosy picture for electric car sales, with BEVs being the most common powertrain and making up 30% of the market, up from 23% a year ago. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/09\/03\/bevs-outsold-every-powertrain-in-august-so-why-is-uk-trying-to-roll-back-targets\/ 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\/bevs-outsold-every-powertrain-in-august-so-why-is-uk-trying-to-roll-back-targets\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":361005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361004","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\/361004","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=361004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}