{"id":1631,"date":"2010-12-07T07:50:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T12:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2010-12-07T07:50:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T12:50:03","slug":"low-speed-vehicle-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/07\/low-speed-vehicle-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Speed Vehicle News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DOT Proposes Rear Visibility Rule<\/strong> &#8211; The US Department of Transportation recently proposed a new  safety regulation to help eliminate blind zones behind  vehicles that can hide  the presence of pedestrians.?? Issued by NHTSA, the new regulation would apply to all  passenger cars, pickup trucks, minivans, buses and <strong>low-speed  vehicles<\/strong> with a  gross vehicle weight rating of up to 10,000 pounds.?? NHTSA believes manufacturers will  install rear mounted video  cameras and in-vehicle displays to meet the proposed  standards. <a title=\"DOT Rear visibility regulation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.gov\/affairs\/2010\/nhtsa1710.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:?? DOT.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>US Navy LSV Sales<\/strong> &#8211; According to information from the US Navy, to date they have replaced 900 non-tactical vehicles in their fleet with low-speed vehicles.?? The purchases are part of their overall alternative fuel vehicle program to convert a large portion of their non-tactical fleet of vehicles, which numbers over 46,000, to various alternative fuels.?? <a title=\"Navy alternative fuel vehicle progress\" href=\"http:\/\/greenfleet.dodlive.mil\/energy\/non-tactical-vehicles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:?? Greenfleet.dodlive.mil<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cruise Car To Exhibit LSVs At World Energy Engineering Congress<\/strong> &#8211; This week Crusie Car will be exhibiting their All American Solar Electric LSV at the World Energy Engineering Congress being held in Washington DC.??<a title=\"Cruise Car to exhibit solar electric LSV\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/press-releases\/10\/12\/p661747\/cruise-car-to-exhibit-all-american-solar-electric-low-speed-vehicles-at\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Learn more:?? Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOT Proposes Rear Visibility Rule &#8211; The US Department of Transportation recently proposed a new safety regulation to help eliminate blind zones behind vehicles that can hide the presence of pedestrians.?? Issued by NHTSA, the new regulation would apply to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/07\/low-speed-vehicle-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,18,21,22],"tags":[75,310,361,477,901,1059,1073,1196,1368,1436],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-market-trends","category-nev","category-regulation-policy","category-safety-2","tag-alternative-fuel-vehicle","tag-cruise-car","tag-dot","tag-exhibit","tag-nhtsa","tag-rear-visibility","tag-regulation","tag-solar","tag-us-navy","tag-world-energy-engineering-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}