{"id":153009,"date":"2019-09-12T13:14:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T20:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=153009"},"modified":"2019-09-12T13:14:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T20:14:37","slug":"porsche-welcomes-a-tesla-nurburgring-lap-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=153009","title":{"rendered":"Porsche welcomes a Tesla Nurburgring lap attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The EV wars are heating up and Germany&#8217;s vaunted Nurburgring Nordschleife is the new battleground. The new Taycan set a better-than-commendable 7:42, and Porsche welcomes the competition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakableTextP1\">The epic Nurburgring Nordschleife has been a performance benchmark for decades. Largely unchanged since the 1920s, this 12.9-mile stretch of undulating asphalt is a must-visit destination for any performance car worth its salt. Lately, with the rise of performance-oriented electric cars, the track has earned new significance not just thanks to its difficulty, but its length.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakableTextP2\">EVs are remarkably good at delivering ridiculous acceleration in short bursts, but sustained performance is\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/roadshow\/news\/porsche-taycan-tesla-nurburgring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EV wars are heating up and Germany&#8217;s vaunted Nurburgring Nordschleife is the new battleground. The new Taycan set a better-than-commendable 7:42, and Porsche welcomes the competition. The epic Nurburgring Nordschleife has been a performance benchmark for decades. Largely unchanged since the 1920s, this 12.9-mile stretch of undulating asphalt is a must-visit destination for any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,69,25,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-electric-vehicles","category-sports-car","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153010,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153009\/revisions\/153010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}