{"id":78935,"date":"2018-05-22T06:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T13:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/dealerships-trash-talk-electric-cars-study"},"modified":"2018-05-26T07:08:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:08:45","slug":"dealerships-trash-talk-electric-cars-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/dealerships-trash-talk-electric-cars-study","title":{"rendered":"Dealerships trash talk electric cars: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dealerships-trash-talk-electric-cars-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Car dealerships in Nordic countries actively discourage consumers from buying electric vehicles, researchers who conducted an undercover investigation said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings, published in the peer-reviewed <i>Nature Energy<\/i>, reveal an overlooked barrier to the sale of electric vehicles, which are expected to play a key role in lowering CO2 emissions and curbing global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Posing as prospective buyers, the researchers made 126 enquiries at 82 dealerships in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Finland.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-05-dealerships-trash-electric-cars.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;05-dealerships-trash-electric-cars.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car dealerships in Nordic countries actively discourage consumers from buying electric vehicles, researchers who conducted an undercover investigation said Monday. Their findings, published in the peer-reviewed Nature Energy, reveal an overlooked barrier to the sale of electric vehicles, which are expected to play a key role in lowering CO2 emissions and curbing global warming. Posing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78935","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79052,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78935\/revisions\/79052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}