{"id":18875,"date":"2025-05-20T18:37:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/sing-when-youre-winning-how-karaoke-in-cars-heralds-the-triumph-of-chinese-firms\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T18:37:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:37:40","slug":"sing-when-youre-winning-how-karaoke-in-cars-heralds-the-triumph-of-chinese-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/sing-when-youre-winning-how-karaoke-in-cars-heralds-the-triumph-of-chinese-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Sing when you\u2019re winning: how karaoke in cars heralds the triumph of Chinese firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European manufacturers of electric vehicles are scrambling to match the technology of their Chinese rivals<\/p>\n<p>If Chinese carmakers are to be believed, a lot of people really love karaoke. Those people love karaoke so much that they want it in their family car.<\/p>\n<p>This was not something the European mind could comprehend a few years ago, according to Volkswagen\u2019s chief financial officer, Arno Antlitz. Yet the technology, included in electric cars sold by China\u2019s BYD and Xpeng, is just one example of the lessons that Volkswagen and its European counterparts have had to learn as they scramble to keep up with Chinese rivals on track to dominate the global electric car market.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/20\/sing-when-youre-winning-how-karaoke-heralds-the-triumph-of-chinese-carmakers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/914204769e3462aaa12f22503f6c4176b794fac5\/574_0_4358_3486\/master\/4358.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bc622f34669769f55516f9fc548b82c6\" title=\"Sing when you\u2019re winning: how karaoke in cars heralds the triumph of Chinese firms\" \/>European manufacturers of electric vehicles are scrambling to match the technology of their Chinese rivals<br \/>\nIf Chinese carmakers are to be believed, a lot of people really love karaoke. Those people love karaoke so much that they want it in their family car.<br \/>\nThis was not something the European mind could comprehend a few years ago, according to Volkswagen\u2019s chief financial officer, Arno Antlitz. Yet the technology, included in electric cars sold by China\u2019s BYD and Xpeng, is just one example of the lessons that Volkswagen and its European counterparts have had to learn as they scramble to keep up with Chinese rivals on track to dominate the global electric car market. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European manufacturers of electric vehicles are scrambling to match the technology of their Chinese rivals If Chinese carmakers are to be believed, a lot of people really love karaoke. Those people love karaoke so much that they want it in their family car. This was not something the European mind could comprehend a few years &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/sing-when-youre-winning-how-karaoke-in-cars-heralds-the-triumph-of-chinese-firms\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sing when you\u2019re winning: how karaoke in cars heralds the triumph of Chinese firms<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18875"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}