{"id":460598,"date":"2022-01-06T10:15:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T04:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=460598"},"modified":"2022-01-06T11:08:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T05:38:46","slug":"sony-beefs-up-electric-vehicle-ambitions-with-plans-for-new-company-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sony-beefs-up-electric-vehicle-ambitions-with-plans-for-new-company-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony beefs up electric vehicle ambitions with plans for new company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese electronics firm Sony Group Corp plans to launch a company in spring 2022 to explore entering the electric vehicle market, signalling ambitions to claim a slice of the fast-growing market for green mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the new company, Sony Mobility Inc, in a news conference ahead of the CES technology trade fair in the United States, Sony&#8217;s chairman and president, Kenichiro Yoshida, said the company was &#8220;exploring a commercial launch&#8221; of electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Shares in Sony jumped 4% in morning trade in Tokyo, outpacing a flat Nikkei index. <\/p>\n<p>Sony already has advanced technology in sensors critical to autonomous driving, as well as the audio and entertainment systems that are increasingly a focus for next-generation vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese electronics firm Sony Group Corp plans to launch a company in spring 2022 to explore entering the electric vehicle market, signalling ambitions to claim a slice of the fast-growing market for green mobility. Announcing the new company, Sony Mobility Inc, in a news conference ahead of the CES technology trade fair in the United States, Sony&#8217;s chairman and president, Kenichiro Yoshida, said the company was &#8220;exploring a commercial launch&#8221; of electric vehicles. Shares in Sony jumped 4% in morning trade in Tokyo, outpacing a flat Nikkei index. Sony already has advanced technology in sensors critical to autonomous driving, as [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460598","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\/460598","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=460598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}