{"id":195144,"date":"2022-09-02T19:27:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T17:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electrek.co\/?p=253582"},"modified":"2023-08-28T16:31:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T16:31:46","slug":"toyota-will-convert-japanese-engine-plants-to-build-batteries-is-it-finally-coming-around-to-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/toyota-will-convert-japanese-engine-plants-to-build-batteries-is-it-finally-coming-around-to-evs\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota will convert Japanese engine plants to build batteries \u2013 is it finally coming around to EVs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.evearly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/toyota-will-convert-japanese-engine-plants-to-build-batteries-is-it-finally-coming-around-to-evs.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nJapanese automaker Toyota continues to delve deeper into a Bizarro-mirrored universe in which it actually (sort of) behaves like an EV automaker. Following news earlier this week in which the EV laggards laid out an $5.6 billion investment plan to build batteries, Toyota is already making moves to convert two engine and powertrain plants near its Japanese headquarters to produce EV batteries instead. <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2022\/09\/02\/toyota-will-convert-japanese-engine-plants-to-build-batteries\/\" 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\/toyota-will-convert-japanese-engine-plants-to-build-batteries-is-it-finally-coming-around-to-evs\/\"><\/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-195144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195144","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=195144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255585,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195144\/revisions\/255585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}