{"id":9035,"date":"2018-05-11T06:22:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T10:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=88be341430b4698b120a537e726e65a8"},"modified":"2018-05-11T06:22:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T10:22:45","slug":"china-monthly-car-sales-pick-up-in-april-ev-sales-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/11\/china-monthly-car-sales-pick-up-in-april-ev-sales-double\/","title":{"rendered":"China monthly car sales pick up in April; EV sales double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG &#8212; An industry group says Chinese passenger car sales expanded at a faster pace last month as growth in the world&#8217;s biggest auto market picked up steam.<\/p>\n<p>Monthly figures from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers released Friday show that passenger cars sales in April rose 11 per cent over a year earlier to 1.9 million vehicles, outpacing a 3.5 per cent growth rate in March.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of &#8220;new-energy vehicles&#8221; such as electric cars and gasoline-electric hybrids more than doubled to 82,000.<\/p>\n<p>Total vehicle sales including trucks and buses rose 11.5 per cent to 2.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>The latest numbers are an improvement on uneven sales earlier this year and a lacklustre performance last year that came as sales growth returned to more normal levels following a surge in 2016 driven by tax cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG &mdash; An industry group says Chinese passenger car sales expanded at a faster pace last month as growth in the world&rsquo;s biggest auto market picked up steam. Monthly figures from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers released Friday show that passenger cars sales in April rose 11 per cent over a year earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9054,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions\/9054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}