{"id":91315437,"date":"2007-11-23T21:23:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T21:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=91315437"},"modified":"2007-11-23T21:23:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T21:23:57","slug":"gas-guzzlers-get-new-lives-as-tire-smoking-hybrids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=91315437","title":{"rendered":"Gas guzzlers get new lives &#8212; as tire-smoking hybrids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WICHITA, Kansas (CNN) &#8212; On a beautiful, crisp late fall afternoon, rock icon Neil Young took his 1959 Lincoln Continental for one last spin before a team of mechanics ripped out its gas-guzzling engine to make way for an electric motor.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;If we&#8217;re going to make a difference, truly make cars more environmentally friendly,&quot; Young said, &quot;we have to make that emotional connection.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe Lincoln&#8217;s new electric engine will power the car and when it begins to lose juice, Young will simply flip a switch and the car will run on biodiesel fuel until the electric motor is recharged. &quot;A 19-foot-long car, the longest car ever made at its time. Two and half tons, the heaviest car at its time,&quot; Young said, &quot;And it can get 100 miles to the gallon, not 10 miles to the gallon.&quot;<br \/>\nYoung renamed his car Linc-Volt, and is making a movie about the transformation, which he hopes to release next year.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/TECH\/11\/20\/green.hummers\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/TECH\/11\/20\/green.hummers\/index.html<\/a>oldId.2007112321235774<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WICHITA, Kansas (CNN) &#8212; On a beautiful, crisp late fall afternoon, rock icon Neil Young took his 1959 Lincoln Continental for one last spin before a team of mechanics ripped out its gas-guzzling engine to make way for an electric motor. &#8230; &quot;If we&#8217;re going to make a difference, truly make cars more environmentally friendly,&quot; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=91315437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gas guzzlers get new lives &#8212; as tire-smoking hybrids&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91315437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91315437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91315437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91315437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91315437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91315437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91315437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}