{"id":500436,"date":"2022-06-24T10:59:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T05:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=500436"},"modified":"2022-06-24T11:40:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T06:10:02","slug":"bmw-starts-production-at-new-2-2-billion-china-plant-to-ramp-up-ev-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bmw-starts-production-at-new-2-2-billion-china-plant-to-ramp-up-ev-output\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW starts production at new $2.2 billion China plant to ramp up EV output"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s BMW said on Thursday that production has formally begun at a new plant in China with an investment of 15 billion yuan ($2.24 billion) as the carmaker accelerates electric vehicle (EV) production. <\/p>\n<p>The Lydia plant, BMW&#8217;s third car assembly facility in China, located in the northeastern city of Shenyang, Liaoning province, will increase BMW&#8217;s annual output in the world&#8217;s biggest auto market to 830,000 vehicles from 700,000 in 2021, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The plant is designed to be capable of producing battery-powered electric cars only according to market demand on its flexible manufacturing lines, BMW said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s BMW said on Thursday that production has formally begun at a new plant in China with an investment of 15 billion yuan ($2.24 billion) as the carmaker accelerates electric vehicle (EV) production. The Lydia plant, BMW&#8217;s third car assembly facility in China, located in the northeastern city of Shenyang, Liaoning province, will increase BMW&#8217;s annual output in the world&#8217;s biggest auto market to 830,000 vehicles from 700,000 in 2021, the company said. The plant is designed to be capable of producing battery-powered electric cars only according to market demand on its flexible manufacturing lines, BMW said.<\/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-500436","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\/500436","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=500436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}