{"id":405901,"date":"2021-03-20T08:40:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T03:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405901"},"modified":"2021-03-20T09:12:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T03:42:20","slug":"foxconn-in-talks-with-vietnams-vinfast-on-electric-car-partnership-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/foxconn-in-talks-with-vietnams-vinfast-on-electric-car-partnership-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxconn in talks with Vietnam&#8217;s Vinfast on electric car partnership: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI\/HANOI (Reuters) &#8211; Taiwan&#8217;s Foxconn is in early stage talks with Vietnamese carmaker VinFast about partnering in electric vehicles, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Foxconn has proposed acquiring VinFast&#8217;s EV production lines, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the media. <\/p>\n<p>But VinFast, a unit of Vietnam&#8217;s largest conglomerate Vingroup JSC, prefers a partnership as it is keen to brand itself as an eco-friendly automaker and wants to retain its EV business, one of the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Foxconn declined to comment. A Vingroup spokesman said the company had no information on the matter to provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI\/HANOI (Reuters) &#8211; Taiwan&#8217;s Foxconn is in early stage talks with Vietnamese carmaker VinFast about partnering in electric vehicles, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Foxconn has proposed acquiring VinFast&#8217;s EV production lines, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the media. But VinFast, a unit of Vietnam&#8217;s largest conglomerate Vingroup JSC, prefers a partnership as it is keen to brand itself as an eco-friendly automaker and wants to retain its EV business, one of the sources said. Foxconn declined to comment. A Vingroup spokesman said the company had [&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-405901","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\/405901","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=405901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}