{"id":44617,"date":"2011-02-16T07:01:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T14:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=44617"},"modified":"2011-02-16T07:01:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T14:01:16","slug":"kite-powered-car-completes-cross-continental-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=44617","title":{"rendered":"Kite-powered car completes cross-continental journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44618\" title=\"kite-power-car\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2011\/02\/kite-power-car.jpg\" alt=\"kite-power-car\" width=\"530\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/kite-power-car.jpg 530w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/kite-power-car-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>A television host and an engineer from Germany have completed an almost 5,000 km (3,107 mile) journey across Australia in their Wind Explorer, a lightweight electric vehicle powered by the wind \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not only through electricity-generating wind turbines but also using kites. The pioneering 18-day trip by Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer set three world records \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the first time a continent has been crossed be a wind-powered vehicle, the longest overall distance covered by an exclusively wind-powered land vehicle, and the longest distance covered by such a vehicle in 36 hours\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/wind-powered-car-completes-cross-continental-journey\/17892\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures &amp; 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>A television host and an engineer from Germany have completed an almost 5,000 km (3,107 mile) journey across Australia in their Wind Explorer, a lightweight electric vehicle powered by the wind \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not only through electricity-generating wind turbines but also using kites. The pioneering 18-day trip by Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer set three world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-board-sports","category-kiteboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44617","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=44617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44620,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44617\/revisions\/44620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}