{"id":80063,"date":"2013-06-03T21:32:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T04:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80063"},"modified":"2013-06-03T21:32:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T04:32:24","slug":"56-of-carmakers-who-asked-for-government-green-loans-are-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80063","title":{"rendered":"56% Of Carmakers Who Asked For Government &#8216;Green&#8217; Loans Are Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-textannotation-id=\"21fba9263e7816f73b6768cb5e0ddfa6\">What do Carbon Motors&#8217; BMW-powered police car, Aptera Motors&#8217; electric three wheeler, and Fisker&#8217;s luxury sedan have in common? Two things: they asked the government for loans, and they&#8217;re dead, as are more than half of the car companies who sought loans, according to documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by Jalopnik.P<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-textannotation-id=\"0f914be00eb991bd2be969bb3dc5cd6c\">Of the 18 existing or would-be carmakers we identified as having applied for loans under the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing program, 10 have since faded into bankruptcy or ceased operations\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/56-of-the-carmakers-who-asked-for-government-green-l-510296228\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-textannotation-id=\"0f914be00eb991bd2be969bb3dc5cd6c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do Carbon Motors&#8217; BMW-powered police car, Aptera Motors&#8217; electric three wheeler, and Fisker&#8217;s luxury sedan have in common? Two things: they asked the government for loans, and they&#8217;re dead, as are more than half of the car companies who sought loans, according to documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by Jalopnik.P [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-electric-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80065,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80063\/revisions\/80065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}