{"id":83471,"date":"2018-10-08T08:42:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T15:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/mercedes-benz-breaks-ground-on-new-battery-factory-for-electric-vehicles-in-the-us"},"modified":"2018-10-08T08:42:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T15:42:41","slug":"mercedes-benz-breaks-ground-on-new-battery-factory-for-electric-vehicles-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/mercedes-benz-breaks-ground-on-new-battery-factory-for-electric-vehicles-in-the-us","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz breaks ground on new battery factory for electric vehicles in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mercedes-benz-breaks-ground-on-new-battery-factory-for-electric-vehicles-in-the-us.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mercedes-Benz makes good on its previously announced $1 billion investment to bring electric vehicle manufacturing in the US \u2013 starting with breaking ground on a new battery factory in Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the German automaker held a ceremony to launch the construction of the factory, which is located seven miles from the Mercedes-Benz Cars vehicle production site in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Markus Sch\u00e4fer, Member of the Divisional Board of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply Chain, attended the ceremony:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2018\/10\/08\/mercedes-benz-breaks-ground-battery-factory-us-electric-vehicles\/\">https:\/\/electrek.co\/2018\/10\/08\/mercedes-benz-breaks-ground-b...-vehicles\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz makes good on its previously announced $1 billion investment to bring electric vehicle manufacturing in the US \u2013 starting with breaking ground on a new battery factory in Alabama. Last week, the German automaker held a ceremony to launch the construction of the factory, which is located seven miles from the Mercedes-Benz Cars vehicle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83471","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}