{"id":1706,"date":"2007-06-10T15:13:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T14:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/10\/ikea-switches-uk-carfleet-to-hybrids\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T14:47:54","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T13:47:54","slug":"ikea-switches-uk-carfleet-to-hybrids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2007\/06\/10\/ikea-switches-uk-carfleet-to-hybrids\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikea switches UK carfleet to hybrids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/news.moneycentral.msn.com\/relevance\/js.asp\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/news.moneycentral.msn.com\/provider\/providerarticle.aspx?feed=FT&amp;Date=20070610&amp;ID=7015721\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"070612_honda.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/070612_honda.jpg\" title=\"070612_honda.jpg\" alt=\"070612_honda.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Ikea is switching its entire UK company-car fleet to hybrid vehicles as a prelude to a possible company-wide shift to greener vehicles. The Swedish retailer said it would trade in its Skoda company cars for Honda Civic hybrids by next year in a pilot programme that it was considering extending to other countries. The move is a significant one for the growing market for alternative-fuel cars, given the home furnishing group&#8217;s size and global reach. It is a coup for Honda, which has seen its rival Toyota achieve global market dominance in hybrid vehicles, which are powered by a combination of an electric motor and a conventional engine. Honda last week said it was discontinuing production of a hybrid version of its mid-size Accord, US sales of which have trailed behind Toyota&#8217;s top-selling Prius. However, its hybrid Civics have sold well, and the company is developing a smaller new hybrid car. Toyota has sold more than 1m hybrid cars worldwide since launching them a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: <\/span>Global <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Company: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=3\"><span name=\"intelliTxt\" id=\"intelliTXT\"><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=3\"><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=3\">Honda<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=3\">, Toyota<\/a><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">, Ikea | <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.moneycentral.msn.com\/provider\/providerarticle.aspx?feed=FT&amp;Date=20070610&amp;ID=7015721\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ikea is switching its entire UK company-car fleet to hybrid vehicles as a prelude to a possible company-wide shift to greener vehicles. The Swedish retailer said it would trade in its Skoda company cars for Honda Civic hybrids by next year in a pilot programme that it was considering extending to other countries. The move&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[127,113,96],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-honda","tag-ikea","tag-toyota","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}