{"id":69619,"date":"2026-03-21T07:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/us-interest-in-electric-vehicles-surges-as-gas-prices-jump-amid-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:55:57","slug":"us-interest-in-electric-vehicles-surges-as-gas-prices-jump-amid-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/us-interest-in-electric-vehicles-surges-as-gas-prices-jump-amid-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"US interest in electric vehicles surges as gas prices jump amid Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online searches for electric and hybrid cars increase as war-linked fuel prices hit highest levels in nearly three years<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US car buyers are showing a surge in interest in electric vehicles after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s decision to attack Iran helped cause a major jump in gasoline prices.<\/p>\n<p>The cost to refuel a vehicle in the US is at its highest level in nearly three years, with the average national price of gas <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\">standing<\/a> at $3.90 a gallon on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/21\/us-gas-price-surge-iran-electric-cars\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online searches for electric and hybrid cars increase as war-linked fuel prices hit highest levels in nearly three years Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox US car buyers are showing a surge in interest in electric vehicles after Donald Trump\u2019s decision to attack Iran helped cause &#8230; <a title=\"US interest in electric vehicles surges as gas prices jump amid Iran war\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/us-interest-in-electric-vehicles-surges-as-gas-prices-jump-amid-iran-war\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US interest in electric vehicles surges as gas prices jump amid Iran war\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}