{"id":472158,"date":"2022-03-02T10:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T05:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=472158"},"modified":"2022-03-02T12:25:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T06:55:50","slug":"toyota-gears-up-its-first-ev-with-safer-longer-lasting-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/toyota-gears-up-its-first-ev-with-safer-longer-lasting-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota gears up its first EV with safer, longer-lasting battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota Motor Corp , a late-comer to the battery electric vehicle (BEV) market, is weaving in all efforts to make sure its first mass-market model is safer and lasts longer than rivals&#8217; products when it goes on sale later this year. <\/p>\n<p>BEVs have grown in popularity globally, but some consumers have been put off by EV battery-related fire risks and rapid degradation.<\/p>\n<p>General Motors and Hyundai Motor were forced last year to recall EVs, carrying batteries manufactured by LG Energy Solution, after reports of fires. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We focused on balancing three factors: cruising range, battery degradation and charging speed,&#8221; Masaya Yamamoto, a project manager at Toyota, said at a test-drive event for the bZ4X sport utility vehicle (SUV) prototype last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota Motor Corp , a late-comer to the battery electric vehicle (BEV) market, is weaving in all efforts to make sure its first mass-market model is safer and lasts longer than rivals&#8217; products when it goes on sale later this year. BEVs have grown in popularity globally, but some consumers have been put off by EV battery-related fire risks and rapid degradation. General Motors and Hyundai Motor were forced last year to recall EVs, carrying batteries manufactured by LG Energy Solution, after reports of fires. &#8220;We focused on balancing three factors: cruising range, battery degradation and charging speed,&#8221; Masaya Yamamoto, [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472158","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=472158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}