{"id":134813,"date":"2022-01-28T04:24:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T12:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/electric-bicycles-are-now-outselling-electric-cars-and-plug-in-hybrids-combined-in-the-us"},"modified":"2022-01-28T04:24:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T12:24:30","slug":"electric-bicycles-are-now-outselling-electric-cars-and-plug-in-hybrids-combined-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/electric-bicycles-are-now-outselling-electric-cars-and-plug-in-hybrids-combined-in-the-us","title":{"rendered":"Electric bicycles are now outselling electric cars and plug-in hybrids combined in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electric-bicycles-are-now-outselling-electric-cars-and-plug-in-hybrids-combined-in-the-us2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2020\/05\/01\/electric-bike-sales-skyrocket-during-lockdown\/\">Electric bicycle sales have been on a skyward trajectory<\/a> since early in the pandemic, and new numbers show they are selling more units than electric cars and plug-in hybrids combined.<\/p>\n<p>Those figures recently released by the Light Electric Vehicle Association trade group help bolster the case for personal electric vehicles as alternatives to larger cars and trucks.<\/p>\n<p>According to data released by the LEVA, the US saw nearly 790,000 electric bike imports in 2021. That marks a 70% increase from the 463,000 imports in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric bicycle sales have been on a skyward trajectory since early in the pandemic, and new numbers show they are selling more units than electric cars and plug-in hybrids combined. Those figures recently released by the Light Electric Vehicle Association trade group help bolster the case for personal electric vehicles as alternatives to larger cars [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134813","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}