{"id":4148,"date":"2010-11-03T23:10:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T15:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2010-11-03T23:10:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T15:10:15","slug":"proton-is-looking-to-offer-its-first-hybrid-car-below-rm100k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/proton-is-looking-to-offer-its-first-hybrid-car-below-rm100k\/","title":{"rendered":"Proton is looking to offer its first hybrid car below RM100k"},"content":{"rendered":"<fb:like \n\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/proton-is-looking-to-offer-its-first-hybrid-car-below-rm100k\/\" \n\t\tlayout=\"button_count\" \n\t\tshow_faces=\"true\" \n\t\twidth=\"450\" \n\t\theight=\"30\"\n\t\taction=\"like\" \n\t\tcolorscheme=\"light\" \n\t\tstyle=\"margin-top:5px;\"\n\t\tclass=\"fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget\"><\/fb:like><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/proton_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Proton&#8217;s Advisor &#8211; Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad during the session handing over Proton&#8217;s 25<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Edition Cars to the first nine buyers. He mentioned that Proton is looking to offer its first hybrid car at a competitive price of below RM100k.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Expected to be commercially launched next year, Proton is said to be developing hybrid as well as electric engines with British company Frazer-Nash Research, South Korea&#8217;s LG and its Britain-based subsidiary Lotus.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have now frozen the design and in the process of improving the performance of the car. We will make an announcement very soon.&#8221; Tun Dr Mahathir added. &#8220;The price of a hybrid car will be slightly higher than an ordinary car because the batteries are so expensive. In the case of a well-known car maker, the hybrid car will be three times higher than ordinary cars. Moreover, Proton would be putting its three hybrid cars to participate in a race in Britain on Nov 6.<\/p>\n<fb:like \n\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/proton-is-looking-to-offer-its-first-hybrid-car-below-rm100k\/\" \n\t\tlayout=\"button_count\" \n\t\tshow_faces=\"true\" \n\t\twidth=\"450\" \n\t\theight=\"30\"\n\t\taction=\"like\" \n\t\tcolorscheme=\"light\" \n\t\tstyle=\"margin-top:5px;\"\n\t\tclass=\"fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget\"><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Proton&#8217;s Advisor &#8211; Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad during the session handing over Proton&#8217;s 25th Anniversary Edition Cars to the first nine buyers. He mentioned that Proton is looking to offer its first hybrid car at a competitive price of below RM100k. Expected to be commercially launched next year, Proton is said to be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,91],"tags":[3067,10020,3068,2224,3061,3066,2521,2223],"class_list":["post-4148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-hybrid","category-proton","tag-frazer-nash-research","tag-hybrid","tag-lg","tag-lotus-proton","tag-malaysia-hybrid-car","tag-proton-hybrid","tag-proton-hybrid-car","tag-proton-lotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4149,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}