{"id":29528,"date":"2021-03-17T12:04:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T18:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=29528"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:22:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T18:22:27","slug":"volkswagen-ceo-wants-to-get-close-and-then-overtake-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/volkswagen-ceo-wants-to-get-close-and-then-overtake-tesla\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen CEO wants to \u2018get close and then overtake\u2019 Tesla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The shift in focus to electric vehicles comes <\/strong><strong>as a<\/strong><strong>uthorities around the world are looking to increase the number of low- and zero-emission vehicles.<\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2021\/03\/16\/we-want-to-overtake-tesla-volkswagens-ceo-says.html\">Speaking to CNBC on Tuesday<\/a>, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess was asked if he would rule out any future deal with Elon Musk\u2019s Tesla as VW pushes ahead with plans for electric vehicles (EVs).<\/p><p>\u201cNo, we haven\u2019t considered (that), we are going our own way,\u201d he replied. \u201cWe want to get close and then overtake.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><p>\u201cWe think that we can\u2014we need our own software stack, our own technology,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd also, I think Tesla, or Elon, is very much thinking &#8230; (about) his way forward. So no, there are no talks between Elon Musk and myself regarding joining forces.\u201d<strong><\/strong><\/p><p>The shift in focus to electric vehicles comes as authorities around the world look to increase the number of low- and zero-emission vehicles in a bid to tackle air pollution.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Earlier this week, VW announced plans&nbsp;to establish six \u201cgigafactories\u201d in Europe by the end of the decade&nbsp;and ramp up EV charging infrastructure in Europe, North America, and China.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shift in focus to electric vehicles comes as authorities  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":29516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-29528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29528","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29529,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29528\/revisions\/29529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}