{"id":385119,"date":"2020-11-20T08:35:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T03:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=385119"},"modified":"2020-11-20T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T03:52:40","slug":"china-goes-ahead-with-hydrogen-powered-cars-defying-elon-musks-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-goes-ahead-with-hydrogen-powered-cars-defying-elon-musks-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"China goes ahead with hydrogen-powered cars, defying Elon Musk&#8217;s warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has spent years mocking the idea of using hydrogen fuel cells rather than electric batteries to power next-generation green vehicles. \u201cFuel cells = fool sells,\u201d the boss of the world\u2019s top electric-car maker tweeted in June. <\/p>\n<p>China, the world\u2019s biggest market for electric vehicles, isn\u2019t so quick to dismiss the alternative to batteries. Officials are promoting the development of hydrogen-powered cars, trucks and buses, with Beijing offering to reward cities that achieve adoption targets. <\/p>\n<p>In a 15-year plan for new-energy vehicles released on Nov. 2, China\u2019s State Council said the country will focus on building the fuel-cell supply chain and developing hydrogen-powered trucks and buses. President Xi Jinping in September set a 2030 deadline for China to begin reducing carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has spent years mocking the idea of using hydrogen fuel cells rather than electric batteries to power next-generation green vehicles. \u201cFuel cells = fool sells,\u201d the boss of the world\u2019s top electric-car maker tweeted in June. China, the world\u2019s biggest market for electric vehicles, isn\u2019t so quick to dismiss the alternative to batteries. Officials are promoting the development of hydrogen-powered cars, trucks and buses, with Beijing offering to reward cities that achieve adoption targets. In a 15-year plan for new-energy vehicles released on Nov. 2, China\u2019s State Council said the country will focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}