{"id":197471,"date":"2018-12-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/german-automakers-commit-to-massive-battery-purchases-sidestep-some-hard-realities\/"},"modified":"2018-12-17T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T15:00:00","slug":"german-automakers-commit-to-massive-battery-purchases-sidestep-some-hard-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/german-automakers-commit-to-massive-battery-purchases-sidestep-some-hard-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"German automakers commit to massive battery purchases, sidestep some hard realities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1120483_german-automakers-commit-to-massive-battery-purchases-sidestep-some-hard-realities\">feedback@highgearmedia.com (Bengt Halvorson)<\/a><\/span>  Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, last week revealed that it will be buying $23 billion in battery cells by 2030. What it didn&#8217;t fully reveal\u2014its sources for those cells\u2014says as much, if not more about a point of unease among German automakers. Battery packs\u2014and specifically the cells inside\u2014are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1120483_german-automakers-commit-to-massive-battery-purchases-sidestep-some-hard-realities\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1120483_german-automakers-commit-to-massive-battery-purchases-sidestep-some-hard-realities\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"German automakers commit to massive battery purchases, sidestep some hard realities\">https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1120483_german-automakers-commit-to-massive-battery-purchases-sidestep-some-hard-realities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, last week revealed that it will be buying $23 billion in battery cells by 2030. What it didn&#8217;t fully reveal\u2014its sources for those cells\u2014says as much, if not more about a point of unease among German automakers. Battery packs\u2014and specifically the cells inside\u2014are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1120483_german-automakers-commit-to-massive-battery-purchases-sidestep-some-hard-realities\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greencarreports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}