{"id":1354,"date":"2010-08-16T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:33:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:33:41","slug":"diesel-car-registrations-overtake-petrol-car-registrations-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2010\/08\/diesel-car-registrations-overtake-petrol-car-registrations-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel cars overtake petrol cars for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Diesel car registrations overtake petrol car registrations for first time<\/h1>\n<p>For the First time in history diesel cars sales have over taken petrol-powered vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>More diesel cars were sold in Britain last month than their petrol cars the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders&#8217; (SMMT) latest survey revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The survey of new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherishedcarnumberplates.co.uk\">car registrations<\/a> showed that in July diesel cars took a record high 50.6 % of the market share after rising 11.8 % while petrol car registrations declined by 13.2 %.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel car sales overtake petrol Sales of alternative fuel vehicles such as hybrids claimed an all-time high of 1.4 % after a 52.6 %.<\/p>\n<p>The weak economy and uncertainty surrounding the Coalition Government&#8217;s austerity measures are thought to be the main factors driving down the sale of petrol cars.<\/p>\n<p>However <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherishedcarnumberplates.co.uk\">Car registrations<\/a> as a whole were down 13.2 % over July as wary consumers held off buying new motors, since the Government discontinued the Srcappage Scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diesel car registrations overtake petrol car registrations for first time For the First time in history diesel cars sales have over taken petrol-powered vehicles. More diesel cars were sold in Britain last month than their petrol cars the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders&#8217; (SMMT) latest survey revealed. The survey of new car registrations showed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137,3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10323,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/10323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}