{"id":13218,"date":"2019-01-07T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=13218"},"modified":"2019-01-07T15:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:22:28","slug":"musk-groundbreaking-for-teslas-china-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=13218","title":{"rendered":"Musk Groundbreaking For Tesla\u2019s China Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Elon Musk joined the mayor of Shanghai on Monday for the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vincent13031925\/status\/1082182633948295168\">groundbreaking ceremony<\/a>\u00a0of Tesla\u2019s first factory outside the U.S. and in the world\u2019s largest electric vehicle (EV) market, China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"23\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Musk had trekked to these inhospitable outskirts of Shanghai on a rainy Monday to break ground on Tesla Inc.\u2019s first car-production site outside the U.S. And in typical Musk fashion, he was big on promises and can-do attitude, flanked by a phalanx of Chinese officials who are keen backers of Tesla\u2019s beachhead in China, the world\u2019s largest automobile market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"24\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The build-up to the event was vintage Musk: a rapid-fire string of tweets bubbling with excitement, a dose of star power (his on-again, off-again girlfriend, the rapper Grimes, accompanied him on his China trip), and an aggressive timetable even for China\u2019s standards, where centralized planning isn\u2019t foreign to the concept of moonshot construction projects. Tesla wants the factory to start pumping out Model 3 cars by the end of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk joined the mayor of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13220,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13218\/revisions\/13220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}