{"id":424511,"date":"2021-07-06T11:14:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T05:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424511"},"modified":"2021-07-06T11:14:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T05:44:37","slug":"daimler-volvo-and-traton-plan-600-million-truck-charging-joint-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/daimler-volvo-and-traton-plan-600-million-truck-charging-joint-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"Daimler, Volvo and Traton plan $600 million truck-charging joint venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three major European truck manufacturers &#8211; Daimler Trucks, AB Volvo and Traton &#8211; said on Monday they plan to form a joint venture to develop an electric battery-charging network for long-haul trucks and buses.<\/p>\n<p>Charging infrastructure expansion has been a central hurdle to the mass adoption of battery-powered vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The three companies, which are normally competitors, will invest 500 million euros ($593.20 million) in the venture that they will own equally and that will start operations in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three major European truck manufacturers &#8211; Daimler Trucks, AB Volvo and Traton &#8211; said on Monday they plan to form a joint venture to develop an electric battery-charging network for long-haul trucks and buses. Charging infrastructure expansion has been a central hurdle to the mass adoption of battery-powered vehicles. The three companies, which are normally competitors, will invest 500 million euros ($593.20 million) in the venture that they will own equally and that will start operations in 2022.<\/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-424511","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\/424511","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=424511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}