{"id":28535,"date":"2015-03-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/vw-bus-hybrid-that-never-was-the-microbus-prototype-of-1977\/"},"modified":"2015-03-27T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T13:00:00","slug":"vw-bus-hybrid-that-never-was-the-microbus-prototype-of-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/vw-bus-hybrid-that-never-was-the-microbus-prototype-of-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Bus Hybrid That Never Was: The Microbus Prototype Of 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1097473_vw-bus-hybrid-that-never-was-the-microbus-prototype-of-1977\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.thecarconnection.com\/tmb\/1977-volkswagen-microbus_100505911_t.gif?w=90\" alt=\"1977 Volkswagen Microbus\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There truly is nothing new under the sun, as the saying goes. Now, a Volkswagen bus from almost 40 years ago has surfaced to prove the point. While hybrid cars have only emerged as a practical alternative to straight internal-combustion over the past 15 years, this recent success was proceeded by decades of experimentation. CHECK OUT&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1097473_vw-bus-hybrid-that-never-was-the-microbus-prototype-of-1977\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1097473_vw-bus-hybrid-that-never-was-the-microbus-prototype-of-1977\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" src=\"http:\/\/images.thecarconnection.com\/tmb\/1977-volkswagen-microbus_100505911_t.gif\" alt=\"1977 Volkswagen Microbus\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There truly is nothing new under the sun, as the saying goes. Now, a Volkswagen bus from almost 40 years ago has surfaced to prove the point. While hybrid cars have only emerged as a practical alternative to straight internal-combustion over the past 15 years, this recent success was proceeded by decades of experimentation. CHECK OUT&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1097473_vw-bus-hybrid-that-never-was-the-microbus-prototype-of-1977\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greencarreports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}