{"id":132757,"date":"2021-12-20T13:22:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T21:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/china-ev-teardown-a-4500-alternative-to-walking"},"modified":"2021-12-20T13:22:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T21:22:51","slug":"china-ev-teardown-a-4500-alternative-to-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/china-ev-teardown-a-4500-alternative-to-walking","title":{"rendered":"China EV teardown: A $4,500 \u2018alternative to walking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-ev-teardown-a-4500-alternative-to-walking.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAIC-GM-Wuling uses cheap parts but makes them easy to replace.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>TOKYO \u2014 At 28,800 yuan ($4,500), the Hongguang Mini EV has become a big seller in certain Chinese cities and villages. In Japan, a Nagoya University professor disassembled the electric vehicle to discover what kind of alchemy the manufacturer used to set such a low price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAIC-GM-Wuling uses cheap parts but makes them easy to replace. TOKYO \u2014 At 28,800 yuan ($4,500), the Hongguang Mini EV has become a big seller in certain Chinese cities and villages. In Japan, a Nagoya University professor disassembled the electric vehicle to discover what kind of alchemy the manufacturer used to set such a low [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}