{"id":3919,"date":"2012-01-25T11:37:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T18:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2012-01-25T11:41:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T18:41:10","slug":"what-do-we-need-from-the-battery-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=3919","title":{"rendered":"What Do We Need From the Battery of the Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4876980332_3268b4c631_b-668x350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3920\" title=\"4876980332_3268b4c631_b-668x350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4876980332_3268b4c631_b-668x350-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4876980332_3268b4c631_b-668x350-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4876980332_3268b4c631_b-668x350.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Imagine a car that could go 300 miles \u2013 that\u2019s Chicago to St. Louis \u2013 on battery power. That\u2019s not possible today without either an assist from a gasoline-fueled engine functioning as a charger (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chevrolet.com\/volt-electric-car\/\">Chevy Volt<\/a> solution) or an alternate drive provider \u00a0(the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyota.com\/prius-hybrid\/\">Toyota Prius<\/a> solution). The fact that such cars need, in effect, two engines, means that battery-powered options remain much more expensive than their purely gasoline-fueled peers, which require only a single powertrain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.txchnologist.com\/2012\/what-do-we-need-from-the-battery-of-the-future-by-david-biello\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-25847\"><\/article>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a car that could go 300 miles \u2013 that\u2019s Chicago to St. Louis \u2013 on battery power. That\u2019s not possible today without either an assist from a gasoline-fueled engine functioning as a charger (the Chevy Volt solution) or an alternate drive provider \u00a0(the Toyota Prius solution). The fact that such cars need, in effect,<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=3919\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3925,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/3925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}