less-than-stellar reviews<\/a><\/u><\/strong> for quality and reliability at their American introduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFactory in progress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
At the end of July, VinFast broke ground on a U.S. factory in North Carolina. The $2 billion assembly plant near Raleigh. Together with the listing on the stock market, the company <\/p>\n\n\n\n
plans to raise as much as $2 billion in additional funding to back its plan to rapidly expand in the American market. VinFast has also stated an intention to build a factory in Indonesia to serve the Indian, African, and middle eastern markets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe last few months have been challenging,\u201d the automaker\u2019s global CEO said in an interview at the plant site in July. \u201cBut everything is falling into place and we have a clean vision\u201d of where the company wants to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chinese automakers, including Tesla, shipped about 70,000 EVs to Europe in the first seven months of this year. However, EU authorities are considering tariffs on the Chinese vehicles for undisclosed reasons. Find out more at TheDetroitBureau.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20027,"featured_media":242910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,10,1164,2648,1347,9],"tags":[12152,12153,3621,6776],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247659,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247657\/revisions\/247659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247657"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=247657"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=247657"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=247657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}