{"id":174952,"date":"2018-05-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/why-arent-automakers-advertising-electric-cars-maybe-they-are\/"},"modified":"2018-05-16T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:00:00","slug":"why-arent-automakers-advertising-electric-cars-maybe-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/why-arent-automakers-advertising-electric-cars-maybe-they-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Why aren&#8217;t automakers advertising electric cars? Maybe they are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1116758_why-arent-automakers-advertising-electric-cars-maybe-they-are\">feedback@highgearmedia.com (Eric C. Evarts)<\/a><\/span>  Sometimes you have to build a market when there&#8217;s not one to cater to. How else would Ford have begun selling 300,000 Explorers a year when they were based on a rough-riding, antiquated (even then) Ranger pickup? Ford disseminated images in front of millions of American eyeballs of Explorers tracking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1116758_why-arent-automakers-advertising-electric-cars-maybe-they-are\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1116758_why-arent-automakers-advertising-electric-cars-maybe-they-are\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Why aren't automakers advertising electric cars? Maybe they are\">https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1116758_why-arent-automakers-advertising-electric-cars-maybe-they-are<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you have to build a market when there&#8217;s not one to cater to. How else would Ford have begun selling 300,000 Explorers a year when they were based on a rough-riding, antiquated (even then) Ranger pickup? Ford disseminated images in front of millions of American eyeballs of Explorers tracking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1116758_why-arent-automakers-advertising-electric-cars-maybe-they-are\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greencarreports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}