{"id":633991,"date":"2024-02-12T12:16:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T06:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=633991"},"modified":"2024-02-12T12:17:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T06:47:37","slug":"how-china-built-byd-its-tesla-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-china-built-byd-its-tesla-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"How China built BYD, its Tesla killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHENZHEN, China &#8212; China&#8217;s BYD was a battery manufacturer trying its hand at building cars when it showed off its newest model in 2007. American executives at the Guangzhou auto show gaped at the car&#8217;s uneven purple paint job and the poor fit of its doors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were the laughingstock of the industry,&#8221; said Michael Dunne, a China auto industry analyst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHENZHEN, China &#8212; China&#8217;s BYD was a battery manufacturer trying its hand at building cars when it showed off its newest model in 2007. American executives at the Guangzhou auto show gaped at the car&#8217;s uneven purple paint job and the poor fit of its doors. &#8220;They were the laughingstock of the industry,&#8221; said Michael Dunne, a China auto industry analyst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-633991","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\/633991","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}