{"id":450455,"date":"2021-11-18T11:10:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T05:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450455"},"modified":"2021-11-18T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T05:40:13","slug":"volkswagen-powers-up-the-grid-to-take-on-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/volkswagen-powers-up-the-grid-to-take-on-tesla\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen powers up the grid to take on Tesla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frankfurt\/Dusseldorf: Volkswagen plans to double staff numbers at its charging and energy division, roll out new payment technology next year and strike more alliances to take on Tesla in a key electric vehicle (EV) battleground: power infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>By ensuring there are enough fast-charging plugs &#8211; and enough power &#8211; for the EVs it wants to sell, Europe&#8217;s biggest carmaker hopes to convince drivers worried about battery ranges that they can ditch their fossil fuel cars for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankfurt\/Dusseldorf: Volkswagen plans to double staff numbers at its charging and energy division, roll out new payment technology next year and strike more alliances to take on Tesla in a key electric vehicle (EV) battleground: power infrastructure. By ensuring there are enough fast-charging plugs &#8211; and enough power &#8211; for the EVs it wants to sell, Europe&#8217;s biggest carmaker hopes to convince drivers worried about battery ranges that they can ditch their fossil fuel cars for good.<\/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-450455","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\/450455","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=450455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}