{"id":3086,"date":"2007-11-07T00:14:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T00:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2007-11-07T00:14:31","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T00:14:31","slug":"is_it_the_new_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3086","title":{"rendered":"Is It the New Automotive Century Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/ed_wallace\/story\/293940.html\">Ed Wallace<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Finally, we are being treated to a good old-fashioned bare-knuckles fistfight. The biggest and most respected players in the automobile industry are trashing each other\u2019s technological plans for future automobiles, while promoting their own concepts as the future of the industry. It\u2019s an elevated debate, not a product-vs.-product dustup. What I found most fascinating about all of this was Carlos Ghosn\u2019s position that, one day in the near future, only electric cars might be allowed in some of the most congested cities in the world. There\u2019s little doubt in my mind that he\u2019s probably right; he\u2019s just looking at the European viewpoint on that issue, not necessarily the Japanese.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/ed_wallace\/story\/293940.html\">Ed Wallace<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Finally, we are being treated to a good old-fashioned bare-knuckles fistfight. The biggest and most respected players in the automobile industry are trashing each other\u2019s technological plans for future automobiles, while promoting their own concepts as the future of the industry. It\u2019s an elevated debate, not a product-vs.-product dustup. What I found most fascinating about all of this was Carlos Ghosn\u2019s position that, one day in the near future, only electric cars might be allowed in some of the most congested cities in the world. There\u2019s little doubt in my mind that he\u2019s probably right; he\u2019s just looking at the European viewpoint on that issue, not necessarily the Japanese.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}