{"id":29378,"date":"2021-03-08T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=29378"},"modified":"2021-03-09T09:03:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T15:03:20","slug":"vw-expects-half-of-u-s-sales-to-be-electric-vehicles-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/vw-expects-half-of-u-s-sales-to-be-electric-vehicles-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"VW expects half of U.S. sales to be electric vehicles by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The announcement follows Tesla becoming the world\u2019s most valued automaker last year by market cap.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen is pushing ahead with plans for all-electric vehicles (EVs) in a bid to become \u201cthe world\u2019s most desirable brand for sustainable mobility,\u201d a statement that clearly expresses its desire to challenge the current EV market leader, Tesla. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The German automaker said Friday that more than 70% of its Volkswagen brand\u2019s European sales will be EVs by 2030, up from a previous target of 35%. In the U.S. and China, the company expects half of its sales to be EVs by the same deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are stepping up the pace,\u201d Ralf Brandstaetter, who leads the Volkswagen brand, said in a statement. \u201cIn the coming years, we will change Volkswagen as never before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company also owns Audi, Lamborghini, Porsche and other luxury brands, but Friday\u2019s announcement applies exclusively to VW-branded vehicles, which include the Passat and Jetta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement follows Tesla becoming the world\u2019s most valued automaker  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":29380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[1350],"class_list":["post-29378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-vw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29391,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29378\/revisions\/29391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}