{"id":5701,"date":"2011-04-14T21:19:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T21:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5701"},"modified":"2011-04-14T21:19:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T21:19:09","slug":"200-miles-per-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5701","title":{"rendered":"200 Miles Per Charge?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SIM-LEIWow. A huge stumble forward for electric cars is on the cards. This prototype SIM-LEI can apparently get 200 miles on a single charge.<\/p>\n

You can read about it for yourselves, but it won’t be in production until 2013, and we can only guess on the price from the description (a separate motor for each wheel…!?)<\/p>\n

Mind you, some of the comments are interesting at the bottom of the article. I agree with that one about how ugly electric cars are – they just look <\/em>like there’s something wrong with them right from the start.<\/p>\n

Then there is the one referring to the Tesla Roadster. Even after tax rebates that one costs over $100,000!<\/p>\n

But let’s not forget that 200 miles (twice the Nissan Leaf’s range) is still pretty poor when you consider how long it will take to “fill” it up again. It’s also the manufacturer’s figure – real range is likely to be well under 180 miles, and even then only if you don’t have the climate control on.<\/p>\n

And as for where <\/em>you can fill it up… and what happens if you don’t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow. A huge stumble forward for electric cars is on the cards. This prototype SIM-LEI can apparently get 200 miles on a single charge. You can read about it for yourselves, but it won’t be in production until 2013, and we can only guess on the price from the description (a separate motor for each […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,102,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-general-related","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t