{"id":611836,"date":"2023-10-23T09:01:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T03:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=611836"},"modified":"2023-10-23T09:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T03:41:20","slug":"chinese-ev-makers-sprucing-up-competition-to-be-more-creative-says-porche-design-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinese-ev-makers-sprucing-up-competition-to-be-more-creative-says-porche-design-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese EV makers sprucing up competition to be more creative says Porche Design Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly twenty years of designing Porsche 911s and Cayennes, Michael Mauer says new competitors led by EV brands from China are making managers and designers in Germany more receptive to risky vehicle concepts. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese startups, with no heritage, they can do things completely different,\u201d Porsche AG and Volkswagen AG\u2019s head of design said in an interview. \u201cI consider it a positive thing actually, as a designer, because that makes the decision-makers \u2014 i.e., the management board \u2014 more open minded.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly twenty years of designing Porsche 911s and Cayennes, Michael Mauer says new competitors led by EV brands from China are making managers and designers in Germany more receptive to risky vehicle concepts. \u201cThese startups, with no heritage, they can do things completely different,\u201d Porsche AG and Volkswagen AG\u2019s head of design said in an interview. \u201cI consider it a positive thing actually, as a designer, because that makes the decision-makers \u2014 i.e., the management board \u2014 more open minded.\u201d<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611836","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=611836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}