{"id":22100,"date":"2018-11-16T15:24:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T15:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22100"},"modified":"2018-11-16T15:24:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T15:24:21","slug":"volkswagen-to-spend-50-billion-on-electric-car-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22100","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen to spend $50 billion on electric car &#8216;offensive&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN Business)<\/cite>Volkswagen has committed to spending tens of billions of dollars as part of a dramatic shift to electric and autonomous vehicles. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Germany carmaker said Friday that it would spend \u20ac44 billion ($50 billion) by 2023 to develop electric cars, self-driving vehicles and other new technology.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Speaking at a press conference following a meeting of the company&#8217;s supervisory board, CEO Herbert Diess described the company&#8217;s strategy as an &#8220;electric offensive.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN Business)Volkswagen has committed to spending tens of billions of dollars as part of a dramatic shift to electric and autonomous vehicles. The Germany carmaker said Friday that it would spend \u20ac44 billion ($50 billion) by 2023 to develop electric cars, self-driving vehicles and other new technology.Speaking at a press conference following a meeting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}