{"id":8986,"date":"2011-05-30T08:57:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=8986"},"modified":"2011-05-30T09:10:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T13:10:06","slug":"bahamas-car-dealer-may-soon-offer-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/bahamas-car-dealer-may-soon-offer-electric-cars","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Car Dealer May Soon Offer Electric Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government&#8217;s Budget duty reduction has boosted a major Bahamian auto dealer&#8217;s negotiations over bringing an electric car franchise to this nation, a senior executive telling Tribune Business yesterday the move had made it &#8220;more viable&#8221; by potentially knocking $10,000 and upwards of the vehicle&#8217;s purchase price.<\/p>\n<p>While declining to name the car manufacturer he was negotiating with, Rick Lowe, Nassau Motor Company&#8217;s (NMC) operations manager, said the decision to reduce the duty rate on electric car imports from 85 per cent to 25 per cent had given the talks more impetus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nassau Motor Company is in negotiations to bring an electric car franchise to the Bahamas&#8230; talks which have been strengthened by the government&#8217;s recent duty reductions on electric car imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[75,106],"class_list":["post-8986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-automobiles","tag-customs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}