{"id":2123,"date":"2008-12-04T15:31:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T14:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2008-12-04T15:31:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T14:31:06","slug":"why-don%c2%b4t-we-ask-car-companies-around-the-world-to-go-electric-if-they-want-to-be-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2123","title":{"rendered":"Why don\u00b4t we ask car companies around the world to go electric if they want to be saved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is our chance to do something different.  Car companies all over the world are asking for help.  Why don\u00b4t we reinvent the car industry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/08_05\/b4069042006924.htm\">as they are doing in Israel<\/a> in exchange for help?<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2123\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is our chance to do something different. Car companies all over the world are asking for help. Why don\u00b4t we reinvent the car industry as they are doing in Israel in exchange for help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-micro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2123\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.3\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky in English\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why don\u00b4t we ask car companies around the world to go electric if they want to be saved? 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