{"id":44904,"date":"2022-05-27T12:15:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T03:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/27\/new-zealand-grandmother-creates-her-own-electric-car-for-24000"},"modified":"2022-05-27T21:36:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T12:36:13","slug":"new-zealand-grandmother-creates-her-own-electric-car-for-24000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44904","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand woman creates her own electric car for $24,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rosemary Penwarden says the vehicle, powered by home rooftop solar, has been running smoothly for three years and has thanked oil companies for the motivation<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand woman has converted a 29-year-old wreck into a homemade, electric vehicle, \u201cto show it can be done\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Rosemary Penwarden has been driving her converted vehicle around South Island roads for three years now. The project took her and a friend more than eight months of solid work and tinkering. \u201cYou do have to be a little bit mad,\u201d she said. \u201cI want to thank the oil companies for the motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/27\/new-zealand-grandmother-creates-her-own-electric-car-for-24000\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosemary Penwarden says the vehicle, powered by home rooftop solar, has been running smoothly for three years and has thanked oil companies for the motivationA New Zealand woman has converted a 29-year-old wreck into a homemade, electric vehicle, \u201cto s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2623,65,303,2662,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-electric-hybrid-and-low-emission-cars","category-environment","category-ethical-and-green-living","category-motoring","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44919,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44904\/revisions\/44919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}