{"id":591091,"date":"2023-07-15T10:06:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T04:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=591091"},"modified":"2023-07-15T10:31:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T05:01:23","slug":"mitsubishi-motors-suspends-china-business-indefinitely-after-slow-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mitsubishi-motors-suspends-china-business-indefinitely-after-slow-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitsubishi Motors suspends China business indefinitely after slow sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitsubishi Motors Corp has suspended its China business indefinitely and will lay off staff after years of poor sales in a market rapidly turning to electric vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>The Japanese automaker said that China\u2019s transition away from gasoline cars to cleaner vehicles had hit its existing line up and seen sales fall far below expectations, according to a July 12 company memo. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past few months, management and shareholders have tried to the best of our ability, but due to market conditions and with great reluctance and regret, we must seize the opportunity to transition to new energy vehicles,\u201d the memo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitsubishi Motors Corp has suspended its China business indefinitely and will lay off staff after years of poor sales in a market rapidly turning to electric vehicles. The Japanese automaker said that China\u2019s transition away from gasoline cars to cleaner vehicles had hit its existing line up and seen sales fall far below expectations, according to a July 12 company memo. \u201cIn the past few months, management and shareholders have tried to the best of our ability, but due to market conditions and with great reluctance and regret, we must seize the opportunity to transition to new energy vehicles,\u201d the [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591091","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=591091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}