{"id":3382,"date":"2014-01-20T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azureblog.smallvehicleresource.com\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2014-01-20T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T17:00:31","slug":"green-automotive-company-buys-stake-electric-truck-maker-viridian-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/20\/green-automotive-company-buys-stake-electric-truck-maker-viridian-motors\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Automotive Company Buys Stake In Electric Truck Maker Viridian Motors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3383\" style=\"width: 638px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/azureblog.smallvehicleresource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Viridian-motor-truck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3383\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3383\" alt=\"A low speed electric powered utility truck produced by Viridian Motors.\" src=\"http:\/\/azureblog.smallvehicleresource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Viridian-motor-truck.jpg\" width=\"628\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Viridian-motor-truck.jpg 628w, https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Viridian-motor-truck-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Viridian-motor-truck-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A low speed electric powered utility truck produced by Viridian Motors.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Green Automotive Company (GAC) has acquired nearly 22% of Viridian Motors, a Virginia based maker of low speed electric utility trucks. GAC previously acquired the UK-based??Land Rover-conversion company Liberty. GAC has three divisions: ??Liberty Electric Car which designs, engineers and manufacturers EV technologies, Newport Coachworks which builds shuttle buses powered by a variety of fuels and Going Green Ltd. which sells and sevices a variety of electric vehicles. The Newport Coachworks division is launching an electric powered shuttle this year and Viridian Motors will be involved in the roll-out on the East-coast.??Currently Viridian produces two electric utility trucks, the WR100 and WR200. Both have a top-speed of 25 mph with ranges of 90 and 75 miles respectively. <a title=\"GAC Acquires Stake in Viridian Motors\" href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2014\/01\/15\/viridian-green-automotive-small-ev-truck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more: Autobloggreen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Automotive Company (GAC) has acquired nearly 22% of Viridian Motors, a Virginia based maker of low speed electric utility trucks. GAC previously acquired the UK-based??Land Rover-conversion company Liberty. GAC has three divisions: ??Liberty Electric Car which designs, engineers and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/20\/green-automotive-company-buys-stake-electric-truck-maker-viridian-motors\/\">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":[5,11,15,16,27],"tags":[46,422,1718,1400,1719,1720],"class_list":["post-3382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-investment-financing","category-marketing","category-mini-trucks","category-utility-vehicles","tag-acquisition","tag-electric-truck","tag-green-automotive-company","tag-viridian-motors","tag-wr100","tag-wr200"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382"}],"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=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}