{"id":419172,"date":"2021-06-08T09:44:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T04:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=419172"},"modified":"2021-06-08T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T05:20:05","slug":"china-ev-maker-betting-on-cult-status-to-sell-a-million-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-ev-maker-betting-on-cult-status-to-sell-a-million-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"China EV maker betting on cult status to sell a million cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since last July, a little-known automaker in China\u2019s southwest has dominated the world\u2019s largest electric car market, outselling bigger players and even Tesla Inc. almost every month with a tiny, bare-bones EV that starts at just $4,500.<\/p>\n<p>The Hongguang Mini is the brainchild of SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co., a joint venture between SAIC Motor Corp. and Guangxi Automobile Group Co., two state-backed automakers, and U.S. giant General Motors Co. <\/p>\n<p>Based in the city of Liuzhou, known for its limestone mountains and river-snail soup, the company &#8212; which has sold some 270,000 of the cars within nine months, making it the best-selling EV in China &#8212; has even bigger ambitions for the future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since last July, a little-known automaker in China\u2019s southwest has dominated the world\u2019s largest electric car market, outselling bigger players and even Tesla Inc. almost every month with a tiny, bare-bones EV that starts at just $4,500. The Hongguang Mini is the brainchild of SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co., a joint venture between SAIC Motor Corp. and Guangxi Automobile Group Co., two state-backed automakers, and U.S. giant General Motors Co. Based in the city of Liuzhou, known for its limestone mountains and river-snail soup, the company &#8212; which has sold some 270,000 of the cars within nine months, making it the best-selling [&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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419172","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=419172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}