{"id":848,"date":"2009-11-19T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2009-11-19T09:33:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:33:28","slug":"aptera-facing-difficulties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/19\/aptera-facing-difficulties\/","title":{"rendered":"Aptera Facing Difficulties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent reports indicate that three-wheeled, electric vehicle maker Aptera is having development and financial difficulties.  The founders have reportedly been pushed out and staff has been cut.  Changes to the vehicle design to widen the vehicle&#8217;s appeal has delayed the launch date significantly and created more capital demands in the middle of a poor investment climate. Loans from the US government&#8217;s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing loan program is potentially a source for cash infusion.  <a title=\"Aptera Difficulties\" href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/16\/more-on-the-trouble-at-aptera-cash-may-be-running-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:  Autogloggreen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent reports indicate that three-wheeled, electric vehicle maker Aptera is having development and financial difficulties. The founders have reportedly been pushed out and staff has been cut. Changes to the vehicle design to widen the vehicle&#8217;s appeal has delayed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/19\/aptera-facing-difficulties\/\">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":[5,11,12,19,24],"tags":[98,123,431,1311],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-investment-financing","category-management","category-new-vehicle","category-scooters-three-wheelers","tag-aptyera","tag-atvm","tag-electric-vehicle","tag-three-wheeled-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}