{"id":72983,"date":"2017-09-30T16:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/mercedes-benzs-1-billion-electric-car-attack-on-tesla-is-missing-a-zero-says-elon-musk"},"modified":"2017-10-06T20:00:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T03:00:48","slug":"mercedes-benzs-1-billion-electric-car-attack-on-tesla-is-missing-a-zero-says-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/mercedes-benzs-1-billion-electric-car-attack-on-tesla-is-missing-a-zero-says-elon-musk","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz\u2019s $1 billion electric car \u2018attack on Tesla\u2019 is missing a zero, says Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mercedes-benzs-1-billion-electric-car-attack-on-tesla-is-missing-a-zero-says-elon-musk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daimler, Mercedes-Benz\u2019s parent company, announced last week <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2017\/09\/21\/mercedes-benz-invests-1-billion-to-build-its-eq-electric-cars-and-batteries-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a $1 billion investment in electric car and battery production in the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As with any new EV investment from a legacy automaker, the media painted it as an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=attack+tesla&rlz=1C5CHFA_enCA724CA725&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqy8valr_WAhVF0FQKHcdZCV0Q_AUICygC&biw=1381&bih=799\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attack on Tesla<\/a>\u201d, but Elon Musk, Tesla\u2019s CEO and largest shareholder, doesn\u2019t seem too worried about it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2017\/09\/25\/mercedes-benzs-1-billion-electric-car-investment-tesla-elon-musk\/\">https:\/\/electrek.co\/2017\/09\/25\/mercedes-benzs-1-billion-elec...elon-musk\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daimler, Mercedes-Benz\u2019s parent company, announced last week a $1 billion investment in electric car and battery production in the US. As with any new EV investment from a legacy automaker, the media painted it as an \u201cattack on Tesla\u201d, but Elon Musk, Tesla\u2019s CEO and largest shareholder, doesn\u2019t seem too worried about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73078,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72983\/revisions\/73078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}