{"id":1628,"date":"2009-06-23T10:45:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T14:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2009-06-23T11:57:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T15:57:47","slug":"auto-industry-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/23\/auto-industry-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto industry update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The auto industry worldwide continues to struggle.\u00a0 With Toyota facing its largest losses ever, <a title=\"Akio Toyoda today becomes president\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601080&amp;sid=afTZBVZzmzas\" target=\"_blank\">Akio Toyoda today becomes president <\/a>of the company founded by his grandfather in 1937.\u00a0 Meantime, the first beneficiaries (<a title=\"reportedly Ford, Nissan, Tesla\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601101&amp;sid=aGNV.ljyfU1I\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly Ford, Nissan, Tesla<\/a>) finally are being named today for the loan program created by Congress in 2007 to help auto makers retool factories to make new-tech vehicles.\u00a0 School of Management Dean <a title=\"Louis Lataif\" href=\"http:\/\/management.bu.edu\/about\/dean\/bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Lataif<\/a>, a former Ford executive, can discuss the industry big picture.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Louis Lataif, 617-353-2668, <a href=\"mailto:lelataif@bu.edu\">lelataif@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The auto industry worldwide continues to struggle.\u00a0 With Toyota facing its largest losses ever, Akio Toyoda today becomes president of the company founded by his grandfather in 1937.\u00a0 Meantime, the first beneficiaries (reportedly Ford, Nissan, Tesla) finally are being named today for the loan program created by Congress in 2007 to help auto makers retool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[217,929,1338,1337,1336],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}