{"id":5567,"date":"2011-04-01T23:09:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T23:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2011-04-01T23:09:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T23:09:48","slug":"electric-cars-a-lifeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5567","title":{"rendered":"Electric Cars: A Lifeline?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5568 lazyload\" title=\"Battery\" alt=\"Battery\" width=\"180\" height=\"113\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/battery_circuit.gif\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/113;\" \/>An interesting news snippet here concerning <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/mobile\/boston\/news\/2011\/04\/01\/a123-long-driving-range-coming-for.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">A123 Systems (an American company)&#160;and a proposed Li-ion battery<\/a> that would give electric cars a 300 mile range.<\/p>\n<p>I am sceptical (and a realist). A 300 mile range is still not the same as what you get from a petrol or diesel vehicle, so no point pretending it is.<\/p>\n<p>An 8 hour charge (probably more with one of these super-batteries) is a major stumbling block.<\/p>\n<p>And they won&#8217;t be available for 5-10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting news snippet here concerning A123 Systems (an American company)&#160;and a proposed Li-ion battery that would give electric cars a 300 mile range. I am sceptical (and a realist). A 300 mile range is still not the same as what you get from a petrol or diesel vehicle, so no point pretending it is. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,102,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-general-related","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}