{"id":3982,"date":"2010-03-18T10:57:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T10:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlgc.wordpress.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2021-05-19T17:13:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:13:12","slug":"north-east-england-becomes-electric-car-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/international-exchange\/north-east-england-becomes-electric-car-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"North East of England becomes electric car hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/8573724.stm\">widely reported in the media<\/a> today, the UK&#8217;s first mass market electric car, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nissan.co.uk\/\">Nissan<\/a> Leaf, will be built in Sunderland.  The move safeguards existing jobs at the plant and creates a number of additional high value jobs in the North East, a Low Carbon Economic Area and an Electric Car Hub.  In July 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/jlgc.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/21\/wearside-works\/\">Nissan also announced<\/a> its decision to locate its electric car battery manufacturing facility at Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nds.coi.gov.uk\/content\/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=412320&amp;NewsAreaID=2\">Department for Business, Innovation and Skills press release<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenortheast.co.uk\/page\/news\/article.cfm?articleId=4441\">One North East press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As widely reported in the media today, the UK&#8217;s first mass market electric car, the Nissan Leaf, will be built in Sunderland. The move safeguards existing jobs at the plant and creates a number of additional high value jobs in the North East, a Low Carbon Economic Area and an Electric Car Hub. In July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-exchange"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9617,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions\/9617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}