{"id":51391,"date":"2011-07-01T20:17:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T03:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=51391"},"modified":"2011-07-01T20:17:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T03:17:49","slug":"electric-vehicle-racing-delivers-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=51391","title":{"rendered":"Electric vehicle racing delivers innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Electric car and motorcycle racing can deliver important breakthroughs and innovations for the future of electric vehicles. I learned that at the ReFuel electric vehicle races at the Laguna Seca racetrack back in 2010, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just as true today. At this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ReFuel races, electric vehicle startup KleenSpeed broke a racing record, and electric motorcycle racer Chip Yates broke another one during the Pike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Peak race climb this week. While it might seem like these events are frivolous and niche (yes, they are small), they are basically the ultimate testing ground for cutting-edge and high-performance electric vehicle technology\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/cleantech\/electric-vehicle-racing-delivers-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/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>Electric car and motorcycle racing can deliver important breakthroughs and innovations for the future of electric vehicles. I learned that at the ReFuel electric vehicle races at the Laguna Seca racetrack back in 2010, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just as true today. At this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ReFuel races, electric vehicle startup KleenSpeed broke a racing record, and electric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51391","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=51391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51392,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51391\/revisions\/51392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}