{"id":495643,"date":"2022-06-02T10:37:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T05:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=495643"},"modified":"2022-06-02T12:16:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T06:46:26","slug":"volkswagens-electric-vehicle-race-with-tesla-will-be-tight-diess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/volkswagens-electric-vehicle-race-with-tesla-will-be-tight-diess\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen&#8217;s electric vehicle race with Tesla will be tight: Diess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla works at twice the industry pace in many processes but still needs to ramp up highly complex factories and find qualified workers to win the electric vehicle race, Volkswagen&#8217;s chief executive said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The US carmaker, posing a challenge to German electric vehicle production with its new plant near Berlin, had the advantage of a blank slate start and a small number of models, Diess said, making it easier to scale.<\/p>\n<p>But his own company Volkswagen was also speeding up, Diess said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot coming from our side too&#8230; a lot of momentum. It will certainly be tight in coming years,&#8221; Diess said, speaking at a car industry conference in Bochum, Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla works at twice the industry pace in many processes but still needs to ramp up highly complex factories and find qualified workers to win the electric vehicle race, Volkswagen&#8217;s chief executive said on Wednesday. The US carmaker, posing a challenge to German electric vehicle production with its new plant near Berlin, had the advantage of a blank slate start and a small number of models, Diess said, making it easier to scale. But his own company Volkswagen was also speeding up, Diess said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot coming from our side too&#8230; a lot of momentum. It will certainly be [&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-495643","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\/495643","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=495643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}