{"id":40573,"date":"2010-11-21T07:26:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T14:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=40573"},"modified":"2010-11-21T07:26:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T14:26:59","slug":"5-reasons-electric-cars-will-disappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=40573","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons Electric Cars Will Disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They&#8217;re cool. That&#8217;s for sure.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt could turn out to be the most innovative mass-produced cars in a century. By taking some or all of their power from a household electrical outlet, they offer the first real glimpse of transportation that doesn&#8217;t rely on petroleum\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand could even crest the magical 100-miles-per-gallon threshold, once the official electricity-to-gasoline conversions are complete. Even better, the two electrics offer something new without the ugly packaging that has doomed futuremobiles in the past. They&#8217;re cute, actually.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Leaf is a perky five-passenger hatchback with sporty handling that can go about 100 miles on an eight-hour charge. The Volt, a bit edgier, is a four-passenger hatch that can go about\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/autos.yahoo.com\/articles\/autos_content_landing_pages\/1561\/5-reasons-electric-cars-will-disappoint\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re cool. That&#8217;s for sure.\u00c2\u00a0 The Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt could turn out to be the most innovative mass-produced cars in a century. By taking some or all of their power from a household electrical outlet, they offer the first real glimpse of transportation that doesn&#8217;t rely on petroleum\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand could even crest the magical [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-electric-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40573","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=40573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40575,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40573\/revisions\/40575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}