{"id":574602,"date":"2023-05-04T11:22:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T05:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=574602"},"modified":"2023-05-04T12:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T06:55:41","slug":"thailand-in-talks-with-catl-others-on-potential-battery-plants-government-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thailand-in-talks-with-catl-others-on-potential-battery-plants-government-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand in talks with CATL, others on potential battery plants: Government official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand is in talks with China&#8217;s CATL and other battery makers to build production facilities in Southeast Asia&#8217;s second-largest economy that has ambitions to become a regional EV production hub, a government official said.<\/p>\n<p>These discussions come as Thailand, a regional autos hub, pushes to become a key player in the global electric vehicle (EV) supply chain outside of China by offering tax cuts and subsidies to drive EV adoption and production. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are talking to many companies, not only CATL but many companies in the battery industry,&#8221; said Narit Therdsteerasukdi, Secretary General of Thailand Board of Investment (BOI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand is in talks with China&#8217;s CATL and other battery makers to build production facilities in Southeast Asia&#8217;s second-largest economy that has ambitions to become a regional EV production hub, a government official said. These discussions come as Thailand, a regional autos hub, pushes to become a key player in the global electric vehicle (EV) supply chain outside of China by offering tax cuts and subsidies to drive EV adoption and production. &#8220;We are talking to many companies, not only CATL but many companies in the battery industry,&#8221; said Narit Therdsteerasukdi, Secretary General of Thailand Board of Investment (BOI).<\/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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574602","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=574602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}