{"id":418133,"date":"2021-06-02T10:16:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T04:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=418133"},"modified":"2021-06-02T10:16:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T04:46:57","slug":"foxconn-teams-up-with-thailands-ptt-to-make-electric-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/foxconn-teams-up-with-thailands-ptt-to-make-electric-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxconn teams up with Thailand&#8217;s PTT to make electric vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: Taiwan&#8217;s Foxconn on Monday announced a partnership with Thailand&#8217;s state-run energy group PTT PCL to make electric cars in the Southeast Asian country, adding to a string of such deals by the iPhone assembler as it makes forays into the car market.<\/p>\n<p>Foxconn, Apple&#8217;s main iPhone maker, has expanded its activities in electric vehicles (EVs) over the past year or so, announcing deals with Chinese electric-car maker Byton and automakers Zhejiang Geely Holding Group as well as Italian automobile company Stellantis.<\/p>\n<p>Foxconn and PTT have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in making EVs and their components for the Thai market, the two companies said in a statement, which also said that the virtual signing ceremony was presided over by Thailand&#8217;s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: Taiwan&#8217;s Foxconn on Monday announced a partnership with Thailand&#8217;s state-run energy group PTT PCL to make electric cars in the Southeast Asian country, adding to a string of such deals by the iPhone assembler as it makes forays into the car market. Foxconn, Apple&#8217;s main iPhone maker, has expanded its activities in electric vehicles (EVs) over the past year or so, announcing deals with Chinese electric-car maker Byton and automakers Zhejiang Geely Holding Group as well as Italian automobile company Stellantis. Foxconn and PTT have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in making EVs and their components for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418133","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}