{"id":2165,"date":"2007-02-27T01:35:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T07:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2007-02-27T01:35:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T07:35:59","slug":"bush-takes-a-look-under-the-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/bush-takes-a-look-under-the-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush takes a look under the hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, <b>President Bush<\/b> took a look under the hood of two plug-in electric cars at the White House, including an electric pickup truck by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixmotorcars.com\/\">Phoenix Motorcars<\/A>.<br \/>\nBush made a short speech to reiterate his State of the Union Address saying: &#8220;I firmly believe that the goal I laid out, that Americans will use 20 percent less gasoline over the next 10 years is going to be achieved, and here&#8217;s living proof of how we&#8217;re going to get there.<br \/>\nAlong with the truck, a Toyota Prius was also on display.<br \/>\nThe Prius on display had a high-power lithium-ion battery made by A123 Systems. It can power the car for about 40 miles and recharge in five hours. The white truck, made by Phoenix Motorcars, uses a different kind of high-powered battery made by Altair Nanotechnologies. The battery has a range of 130 miles and can be recharged in about 10 minutes with a rapid-charging unit or trickle-charged overnight with its onboard charger.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2007\/02\/20070223-5.wm.v.html\">Watch video here<\/A><br \/>\nRead the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/24\/washington\/24bush.html\">New York Times<\/A> article.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2007\/02\/bush_showcases.php\">Treehugger<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, President Bush took a look under the hood of two plug-in electric cars at the White House, including an electric pickup truck by Phoenix Motorcars. Bush made a short speech to reiterate his State of the Union Address saying: &#8220;I firmly believe that the goal I laid out, that Americans will use 20 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/bush-takes-a-look-under-the-hood\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush takes a look under the hood<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-take-action","category-techno"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-yV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}