{"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":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5702 lazyload\" title=\"SIM-LEI Prototype\" alt=\"SIM-LEI Prototype\" width=\"180\" height=\"107\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sim-lei.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/107;\" \/>Wow. A huge stumble forward for electric cars is on the cards. This <span style=\"color: #800000\">prototype SIM-LEI  can apparently get 200 miles on a single charge.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about it for yourselves, but it won&#8217;t be in production until 2013, and we can only guess on the price from the description (a separate motor for each wheel&#8230;!?)<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; they just <em>look <\/em>like there&#8217;s something wrong with them right from the start.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the one referring to the Tesla Roadster. Even after tax rebates that one costs over $100,000!<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s not forget that 200 miles (twice the Nissan Leaf&#8217;s range) is still pretty poor when you consider how long it will take to &#8220;fill&#8221; it up again. It&#8217;s also the manufacturer&#8217;s figure &#8211; real range is likely to be well under 180 miles, and even then only&#160;if you don&#8217;t have the climate control on.<\/p>\n<p>And as for&#160;<em>where <\/em>you can fill it up&#8230; and what happens if you don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t be in production until 2013, and we can only guess on the price from the description (a separate motor for each [&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-5701","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\/5701","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=5701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}