{"id":1861,"date":"2005-10-19T10:04:16","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T10:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2005-10-19T10:04:16","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T10:04:16","slug":"hybrid_car_desi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1861","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid Car Design Battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emailthis.clickability.com\/et\/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&#038;etMailToID=188233637\">Norihiko Shirouzo &#038; Jathon Sapsford<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A battle for power and influence is under way in the auto industry, as the basic technology under the hoods of mass-market cars goes up for grabs for the first time in nearly a century.<br \/>\nAmid soaring gasoline prices, car makers are rushing to use hybrid engines, which boost fuel efficiency by combining a traditional gasoline motor with an electric one. The result is a race among the world&#8217;s automotive giants that &#8212; like the VHS vs. Betamax brawl in the early days of videocassettes &#8212; could redraw the industry&#8217;s hierarchy and system of alliances for years to come.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norihiko Shirouzo &#038; Jathon Sapsford: A battle for power and influence is under way in the auto industry, as the basic technology under the hoods of mass-market cars goes up for grabs for the first time in nearly a century. Amid soaring gasoline prices, car makers are rushing to use hybrid engines, which boost fuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}