{"id":434236,"date":"2021-09-06T08:44:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T03:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=434236"},"modified":"2021-09-06T09:52:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T04:22:27","slug":"volkswagen-ceo-says-smart-cars-not-electric-cars-are-gamechanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/volkswagen-ceo-says-smart-cars-not-electric-cars-are-gamechanger\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen CEO says smart cars, not electric cars, are &#8216;gamechanger&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen head Herbert Diess on Sunday said autonomous cars, not electric vehicles, were the &#8220;real gamechanger&#8221; for the auto industry, which is facing the end of combustion engines in Europe by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>Diess&#8217; comments signal the pace at which the 62-year old tries to transform Europe&#8217;s largest carmaker by basically saying that the shift towards battery-powered electric vehicles (EV), which still needs to be backed up by actual sales, was sealed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Autonomous driving is really going to change our industry like nothing else before,&#8221; Diess said in Munich ahead of the official opening of the IAA car show, adding the shift towards electrified cars was &#8220;kind of easy&#8221; in comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen head Herbert Diess on Sunday said autonomous cars, not electric vehicles, were the &#8220;real gamechanger&#8221; for the auto industry, which is facing the end of combustion engines in Europe by 2035. Diess&#8217; comments signal the pace at which the 62-year old tries to transform Europe&#8217;s largest carmaker by basically saying that the shift towards battery-powered electric vehicles (EV), which still needs to be backed up by actual sales, was sealed. &#8220;Autonomous driving is really going to change our industry like nothing else before,&#8221; Diess said in Munich ahead of the official opening of the IAA car show, adding the [&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-434236","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\/434236","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=434236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}