{"id":514080,"date":"2026-06-02T04:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/514080\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T04:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:06:19","slug":"ev-sales-set-records-in-37-countries-as-consumers-flee-high-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/514080\/","title":{"rendered":"EV sales set records in 37 countries as consumers flee high gas prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/automobiles\/electric-vehicles\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Electric vehicles<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Markets outside China and US post 50% year-on-year jump in March-April sales<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260601N EV charging\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The current oil crisis could do for EVs what the 1970s crisis did for small,\u00a0fuel-efficient Japanese cars. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Electric vehicle sales in 37 countries reached record monthly highs in either March or April, as soaring fuel prices due to the war in the Middle East push consumers toward cars with lower ownership costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electric vehicles Markets outside China and US post 50% year-on-year jump in March-April sales The current oil crisis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[106280,79,3349,20208,179,18,29517,222718,9949,41032,19,17,4057,46452,3109,32294],"class_list":["post-514080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-106280","tag-business","tag-consumers","tag-countries","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-ev","tag-flee","tag-gas","tag-high","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-prices","tag-records","tag-sales","tag-set"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116678544433163865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}