{"id":447033,"date":"2021-11-02T09:25:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447033"},"modified":"2021-11-02T10:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T04:30:34","slug":"chinas-popular-electric-vehicles-have-put-europes-automakers-on-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-popular-electric-vehicles-have-put-europes-automakers-on-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s popular electric vehicles have put Europe\u2019s automakers on notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name MG used to be synonymous with spirited but finicky sports cars from Britain. Nowadays the iconic octagonal badge serves a different kind of motoring ambition: China\u2019s push to become a big player in the global auto market.<\/p>\n<p>SAIC Motor, one of China\u2019s Big Four automakers, bought the MG brand in 2007 and is stamping it on a line of electric SUVs on sale in Germany and other European markets. MG is an example of how Chinese carmakers are exploiting the shift to electric cars to challenge the American, European and Japanese carmakers that have long dominated the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name MG used to be synonymous with spirited but finicky sports cars from Britain. Nowadays the iconic octagonal badge serves a different kind of motoring ambition: China\u2019s push to become a big player in the global auto market. SAIC Motor, one of China\u2019s Big Four automakers, bought the MG brand in 2007 and is stamping it on a line of electric SUVs on sale in Germany and other European markets. MG is an example of how Chinese carmakers are exploiting the shift to electric cars to challenge the American, European and Japanese carmakers that have long dominated the industry.<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447033","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=447033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}