{"id":802,"date":"2009-03-24T16:38:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T16:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2009-03-24T16:38:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T16:38:23","slug":"todays-van-news-in-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/802","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Van News In Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a selection of interesting links covering UK van industry developments and the future of electric vehicles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleetnews.co.uk\/news\/story\/Electric-future-a-decade-off\/49736\" target=\"_blank\">Electric future a decade off<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; a informative and balanced look at progress and prospects for electric vans and cars from Fleet News.<\/li>\n<li>The UK government is probably going to abandon loss-making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/Birmingham\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham<\/a>-based van maker LDV (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/713\" target=\"_self\">as it should&#8230;<\/a>), but there are several potential buyers sniffing around, <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/engineering\/article5956273.ece\" target=\"_blank\">according to The Times<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, redundancy could be quite lucrative for some of workers at Ford&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/Southampton\" target=\"_blank\">Southampton<\/a> factory &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/4224886.__100_000_pay_offs_for_Ford_workers\/\" target=\"_blank\">they stand to pocket as much as \u00a3100,000 from losing their jobs, thanks to aggressive union pay bargaining<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prospects for electric vans, LDV&#8217;s potential buyers and Ford&#8217;s redundancy package for its Southampton workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[19,249,49,211,652,584],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}