{"id":100630,"date":"2015-10-08T14:10:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T12:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=100630"},"modified":"2015-10-08T16:29:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:29:57","slug":"watch-lexus-makes-full-size-car-out-of-cardboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/100630\/watch-lexus-makes-full-size-car-out-of-cardboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Lexus makes full-size electric car out of cardboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lexus has an origami car, which is a life-size replica of the new IS saloon crafted from 1,700 recyclable laser-cut cardboard sheets.<\/p>\n<p>The Lexus origami car was created as a \u201ccelebration of the skills of Lexus\u2019s takumi craftsmen, capturing the spirit of creating amazing in design and engineering\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Origami Car has a fully-fitted interior, functioning doors, headlights, and rolling wheels,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The origami car is powered by an electric motor, and can be driven like a normal electric vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The car will be on show\u00a0at the Grand Designs Live Show at the NEC in Birmingham from 8 October.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pVlUIBKXVX4\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Lexus<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/93366\/watch-new-lexus-hoverboard-test-video\/\">Watch: New Lexus hoverboard test video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/83181\/epic-bicycles-made-by-supercar-companies\/\">Epic bicycles made by supercar companies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lexus has an origami car, which is a life-size replica of the new IS saloon crafted from 1,700 recyclable laser-cut cardboard sheets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":100632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[25,5676],"class_list":["post-100630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-active","tag-lexus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100710,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100630\/revisions\/100710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}