{"id":10145,"date":"2021-01-19T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/china-business\/article\/3118305\/chinas-first-carmaker-faw-joins-rush-ditch-petrol-guzzlers"},"modified":"2021-01-19T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T08:00:15","slug":"chinas-first-carmaker-faw-joins-the-rush-to-ditch-petrol-guzzlers-in-a-30-billion-yuan-venture-with-audi-to-produce-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/chinas-first-carmaker-faw-joins-the-rush-to-ditch-petrol-guzzlers-in-a-30-billion-yuan-venture-with-audi-to-produce-electric-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s first carmaker FAW joins the rush to ditch petrol guzzlers in a 30 billion yuan venture with Audi to produce electric cars"},"content":{"rendered":"China\u2019s very first carmaker is entering the fray to assemble electric cars, as it joins the shift towards electrification in the world\u2019s largest automotive industry, where one in every five vehicles will be powered by electricity by 2025.FAW Group, founded in 1953 to spearhead Mao Zedong\u2019s industrialisation, will team up with its German partner Audi to build a 30 billion yuan (US$4.6 billion) plant in the Jilin provincial capital of Changchun in north-eastern China. FAW, which already makes\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/china-business\/article\/3118305\/chinas-first-carmaker-faw-joins-rush-ditch-petrol-guzzlers\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s very first carmaker is entering the fray to assemble electric cars, as it joins the shift towards electrification in the world\u2019s largest automotive industry, where one in every five vehicles will be powered by electricity by 2025.FAW Group, fou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1029,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10146,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145\/revisions\/10146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}