{"id":89471,"date":"2014-01-20T21:01:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89471"},"modified":"2014-01-20T21:01:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T04:01:31","slug":"electric-car-tesla-motors-dirty-little-secret-is-a-major-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89471","title":{"rendered":"Electric Car &#8211; Tesla Motors&#8217; Dirty Little Secret Is a Major Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Energy independence, a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, lower fuel costs: All of these promises are factors behind the rise in electric vehicles&#8217; popularity. Unfortunately, they&#8217;re more fiction than fact. Here&#8217;s why, and how it could affect companies like Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA\u00a0\u00a0) .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do you want cancer with that battery?\u00a0 Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy undertook a study to look at the environmental impact of lithium-ion batteries for EVs. The study showed that batteries that use\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/3113795\/posts\" 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>Energy independence, a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, lower fuel costs: All of these promises are factors behind the rise in electric vehicles&#8217; popularity. Unfortunately, they&#8217;re more fiction than fact. Here&#8217;s why, and how it could affect companies like Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA\u00a0\u00a0) . Do you want cancer with that battery?\u00a0 Recently, the Environmental Protection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,69,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-electric-vehicles","category-new-automobile-products-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89471","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=89471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89472,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89471\/revisions\/89472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}