{"id":224007,"date":"2019-05-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/report-vw-might-offload-niche-brands-nix-electric-sports-car-platform-10\/"},"modified":"2019-05-09T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:00:00","slug":"report-vw-might-offload-niche-brands-nix-electric-sports-car-platform-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/report-vw-might-offload-niche-brands-nix-electric-sports-car-platform-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: VW might offload niche brands, nix electric sports car platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1123000_report-vw-might-offload-niche-brands-nix-electric-sports-car-platform\">feedback@highgearmedia.com (Eric C. Evarts)<\/a><\/span>  Volkswagen&#8217;s transformation from the world&#8217;s leading maker of diesel cars to focusing on electrics isn&#8217;t coming cheap. The company has reportedly paid as much as $30 billion to put its diesel emissions scandal in the rearview mirror (mostly), and it&#8217;s investing up to $50 billion more to develop electric cars. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1123000_report-vw-might-offload-niche-brands-nix-electric-sports-car-platform\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1123000_report-vw-might-offload-niche-brands-nix-electric-sports-car-platform\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Report: VW might offload niche brands, nix electric sports car platform\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1123000_report-vw-might-offload-niche-brands-nix-electric-sports-car-platform<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen&#8217;s transformation from the world&#8217;s leading maker of diesel cars to focusing on electrics isn&#8217;t coming cheap. The company has reportedly paid as much as $30 billion to put its diesel emissions scandal in the rearview mirror (mostly), and it&#8217;s investing up to $50 billion more to develop electric cars. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1123000_report-vw-might-offload-niche-brands-nix-electric-sports-car-platform\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> &#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-224007","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\/224007","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=224007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}