{"id":336968,"date":"2025-10-23T12:05:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/openness-to-technology-is-not-industrial-policy-interview-with-man-ceo-alexander-vlaskamp\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:05:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:05:05","slug":"openness-to-technology-is-not-industrial-policy-interview-with-man-ceo-alexander-vlaskamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/openness-to-technology-is-not-industrial-policy-interview-with-man-ceo-alexander-vlaskamp\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOpenness to technology is not industrial policy\u201d \u2013 interview with MAN CEO Alexander Vlaskamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/openness-to-technology-is-not-industrial-policy-interview-with-man-ceo-alexander-vlaskamp.jpg\" alt=\"Logo\"><br \/>German Chancellor Merz hosted an auto summit this month and delivered the catchy line that \u201cthe electric car drives on the main road\u201d. But where does the electric truck drive? We spoke to someone who attended the summit: Alexander Vlaskamp, CEO of MAN Truck &#038; Bus, on shared industry interests, new competition from China, and political misconceptions. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2025\/10\/23\/openness-to-technology-is-not-industrial-policy-interviw-with-man-ceo-alexander-vlaskamp\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/openness-to-technology-is-not-industrial-policy-interview-with-man-ceo-alexander-vlaskamp.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Logo&#8221;&gt;German Chancellor Merz hosted an auto summit this month and delivered the catchy line that \u201cthe electric car drives on the main road\u201d. But where does the electric truck drive? We spoke to someone who attended the summit: Alexander Vlaskamp, CEO of MAN Truck &amp; Bus, on shared industry interests,&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/openness-to-technology-is-not-industrial-policy-interview-with-man-ceo-alexander-vlaskamp\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":336969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336968","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}