{"id":353038,"date":"2026-05-01T11:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/smart-returns-to-its-roots-and-scales-up-in-europe-interview-with-ceo-smart-europe-wolfgang-ufer\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:08:15","slug":"smart-returns-to-its-roots-and-scales-up-in-europe-interview-with-ceo-smart-europe-wolfgang-ufer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/smart-returns-to-its-roots-and-scales-up-in-europe-interview-with-ceo-smart-europe-wolfgang-ufer\/","title":{"rendered":"smart returns to its roots \u2014 and scales up in Europe: Interview with CEO smart Europe Wolfgang Ufer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/smart-returns-to-its-roots-and-scales-up-in-europe-interview-with-ceo-smart-europe-wolfgang-ufer.jpg' alt='electrive'><br \/>smart is expanding its electric portfolio \u2014 but the return of the two-seater could redefine the brand. In his first major interview as CEO of smart in Europe, Wolfgang Ufer outlines growth plans, market dynamics and why the upcoming #2 marks a turning point for smart. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/05\/01\/smart-returns-to-its-roots-and-scales-up-in-europe-interview-with-ceo-smart-europe-wolfgang-ufer\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>smart is expanding its electric portfolio \u2014 but the return of the two-seater could redefine the brand. In his first major interview as CEO of smart in Europe, Wolfgang Ufer outlines growth plans, market dynamics and why the upcoming #2 marks a turning point for smart&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/smart-returns-to-its-roots-and-scales-up-in-europe-interview-with-ceo-smart-europe-wolfgang-ufer\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":353039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353038","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\/353038","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=353038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}