{"id":94,"date":"2008-11-22T12:11:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T12:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2008-11-22T12:11:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T12:11:54","slug":"kentucky-venture-gets-zapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/22\/kentucky-venture-gets-zapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Venture Gets ZAPped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a number of reports(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/181\/story\/599001.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lexington Herald-Leader<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/earth2tech.com\/2008\/11\/20\/zap-deal-going-splat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">earth2tech<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autobloggreen.com\/2008\/11\/20\/zap-runs-out-of-juice-in-kentucky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">autobloggreen<\/a>), the plans to build ZAP vehicles in Kentucky through a joint venture with Integrity Manufacturing have come to a halt.  The company&#8217;s CEO Randy Waldman points to the loss of potential investor GE Capital as the primary reason.  Apparently GE Capital was to provide $125 million in funding through a sale of bonds (although the Earth2tech story disputes this) but has pulled out of the deal.  Integrity Manufacturing is now trying to find money in a $200 billion Department of Energy fund targeting energy projects.  An alternative being mentioned by management is to convince another state to provide funding or a manufacturing facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a number of reports(Lexington Herald-Leader, earth2tech, autobloggreen), the plans to build ZAP vehicles in Kentucky through a joint venture with Integrity Manufacturing have come to a halt. The company&#8217;s CEO Randy Waldman points to the loss of potential &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/22\/kentucky-venture-gets-zapped\/\">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":[5,6,28],"tags":[662,712,2187],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-facilities","category-zap","tag-integrity-manufacturing","tag-kentucky","tag-zap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}