{"id":3759,"date":"2021-03-31T20:59:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T00:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2021-04-05T08:17:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:17:24","slug":"volkswagens-voltswagen-is-really-an-april-foolswagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/volkswagens-voltswagen-is-really-an-april-foolswagen\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen\u2019s \u2018Voltswagen&#8217; Is Really an April &#8216;Foolswagen&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A spokesman for Volkswagen recently confirmed that the alleged rebranding was done &#8220;in the spirit of an April Fool&#8217;s joke,&#8221; after Volkswagen US tweeted a new logo and a press release announcing plans to rebrand itself as Volt cars as part of the push for electric cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Reuters news agency and the Wall Street Journal quoted unnamed sources who said Volkswagen would reveal on Wednesday that the name change was not genuine, saying it was &#8220;It&#8217;s a premature April Fool&#8217;s joke. It&#8217;s part of a marketing campaign for the ID.4.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the &lt;a href=&#8221;https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/voltswagen-hoax-211116837.html&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;&gt;original story&lt;\/a&gt; in Engadget<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spokesman for Volkswagen recently confirmed that the alleged rebranding was done &#8220;in the spirit of an April Fool&#8217;s joke,&#8221; after Volkswagen US tweeted a new logo and a press release announcing plans to rebrand itself as Volt cars as part of the push for electric cars. The Reuters news agency and the Wall Street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-3759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-tech","tag-volkswagen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3859,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions\/3859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}