{"id":7544,"date":"2011-01-04T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7544"},"modified":"2011-01-04T03:00:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T08:00:03","slug":"making-it-sound-worse-than-it-really-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7544","title":{"rendered":"Making It Sound Worse Than it Really Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Chevy-Volt-Nissan-Leaf-post-apf-3331606830.html\">Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf post small December sales<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This was the year General Motors Co. and Nissan made good on their promise to bring mass-produced electric cars to the market. But don&#8217;t count on seeing one in traffic soon. Sales so far have been microscopic and they&#8217;re likely to stay that way for some time because of limited supplies.<\/p>\n<p>GM sold between 250 and 350 Chevy Volts this month and Nissan&#8217;s sales totaled less than 10 Leaf sedans in the past two weeks. Production for both is slowly ramping up.<\/p>\n<p>It will be well into 2012 before both the Volt and Leaf are available nationwide. And if you&#8217;re interested in buying one, you&#8217;ll need to get behind the 50,000 people already on waiting lists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One might argue that extremely limited availability doesn&#8217;t count as &#8220;bring(ing) mass-produced electric cars to the market.&#8221;  It&#8217;s bringing a small amount of cars to market.  The headline makes it seem like there isn&#8217;t much demand, rather than the companies selling every electric car they&#8217;ve made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf post small December sales This was the year General Motors Co. and Nissan made good on their promise to bring mass-produced electric cars to the market. But don&#8217;t count on seeing one in traffic soon. Sales &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7544\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-environment","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}