{"id":156331,"date":"2022-01-26T19:32:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electrek.co\/?p=222851"},"modified":"2023-08-28T15:20:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T15:20:13","slug":"baidus-autonomous-ev-marque-jidu-garners-400-million-series-a-funding-round-to-support-robocar-launch-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/baidus-autonomous-ev-marque-jidu-garners-400-million-series-a-funding-round-to-support-robocar-launch-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Baidu\u2019s autonomous EV marque JIDU garners $400 million Series A funding round to support \u2018Robocar\u2019 launch in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.evearly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/baidus-autonomous-ev-marque-jidu-garners-400-million-series-a-funding-round-to-support-robocar-launch-in-2023.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIntelligent EV startup JIDU announced a closed round of Series A funding that raised nearly $400 million dollars. The financing was led by JIDU\u2019s parent company Baidu Group, and its business partner Zhejiang Geely Holding Group \u2013 the largest auto manufacturer in China. JIDU plans to use the funds for R&amp;D of its teased \u201cRobocar\u201d concept, aiming for mass production in 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2022\/01\/26\/baidus-autonomous-ev-marque-jidu-garners-400-million-series-a-funding-round-to-support-robocar-launch-in-2023\/\" target='bwindow' rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/baidus-autonomous-ev-marque-jidu-garners-400-million-series-a-funding-round-to-support-robocar-launch-in-2023\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253701,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156331\/revisions\/253701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}