{"id":425877,"date":"2021-07-14T12:20:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T06:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=425877"},"modified":"2021-07-14T12:20:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T06:50:49","slug":"volkswagen-shows-confidence-in-electric-future-with-higher-margin-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/volkswagen-shows-confidence-in-electric-future-with-higher-margin-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen shows confidence in electric future with higher margin goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen raised its long-term profitability target on Tuesday in a sign of the German automaker&#8217;s growing confidence in managing the shift to electric and self-driving vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting its strategy until 2030, Europe&#8217;s largest carmaker also said it expected half of its global vehicle sales to be battery-powered by that date &#8211; joining rivals in setting ambitious goals to move on from the era of combustion engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen raised its long-term profitability target on Tuesday in a sign of the German automaker&#8217;s growing confidence in managing the shift to electric and self-driving vehicles. Presenting its strategy until 2030, Europe&#8217;s largest carmaker also said it expected half of its global vehicle sales to be battery-powered by that date &#8211; joining rivals in setting ambitious goals to move on from the era of combustion engines.<\/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-425877","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\/425877","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=425877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}