{"id":642509,"date":"2024-04-25T11:47:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T06:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=642509"},"modified":"2024-04-25T11:47:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T06:17:17","slug":"chinas-byd-seeks-to-redefine-luxury-for-the-ev-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-byd-seeks-to-redefine-luxury-for-the-ev-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s BYD seeks to redefine luxury for the EV generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: Chinese EV maker BYD will showcase its premium brand&#8217;s first sedan at the Beijing auto show from Thursday, in a challenge to the likes of Germany&#8217;s Mercedes-Benz which three years ago pulled out of the brand&#8217;s development citing slow sales.<br \/>\nThe Denza Z9GT is the fruit of BYD founder Wang Chuanfu persisting with the brand after Mercedes-Benz effectively became a sleeping partner in their decade-old 50-50 premium EV venture by cutting its stake to 10%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: Chinese EV maker BYD will showcase its premium brand&#8217;s first sedan at the Beijing auto show from Thursday, in a challenge to the likes of Germany&#8217;s Mercedes-Benz which three years ago pulled out of the brand&#8217;s development citing slow sales. The Denza Z9GT is the fruit of BYD founder Wang Chuanfu persisting with the brand after Mercedes-Benz effectively became a sleeping partner in their decade-old 50-50 premium EV venture by cutting its stake to 10%.<\/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-642509","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\/642509","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=642509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}