{"id":4641,"date":"2018-11-22T04:32:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T04:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/witkar-the-worlds-first-electric-car-sharing-scheme\/"},"modified":"2018-11-22T04:32:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T04:32:13","slug":"witkar-the-worlds-first-electric-car-sharing-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/witkar-the-worlds-first-electric-car-sharing-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Witkar&#8217;, the world&#8217;s first electric car-sharing scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The &#8220;Witkar&#8221;, or white car, was the world&#8217;s first electric car-sharing scheme. <\/p>\n<p>It was the brainchild of Dutch visionary, Luud Schimmelpennink, who came up with the innovative idea to tackle pollution on the streets of his native Amsterdam. <\/p>\n<p>The first &#8220;Witkar&#8221; took to the roads in 1974, but it was way ahead of its time. <\/p>\n<p>Now though, Luud&#8217;s idea is being copied in cities around the globe. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p004t1hd\" class=\"story-body__link\">Witness<\/a><i>: The stories of our times told by the people who were there. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/stories-46277058\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Witkar&#8221;, or white car, was the world&#8217;s first electric car-sharing scheme. It was the brainchild of Dutch visionary, Luud Schimmelpennink, who came up with the innovative idea to tackle pollution on the streets of his native Amsterdam. The first &#8220;Witkar&#8221; took to the roads in 1974, but it was way ahead of its time. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}