{"id":257,"date":"2012-09-05T12:17:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T17:17:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Deriving the Tesla Roadster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/roadster\">Tesla Roadster<\/a> is just about the coolest car on the planet.  Starting with the body of a Lotus Elise, Tesla adds an electric engine and a bunch of laptop batteries to create fabulous style, amazing speed, and a perfectly green image.  What more could a car buff want?<\/p>\n<p>OK, one could hope for a slightly lower price.  But I have a separate problem.  I already own a Lotus Elise (since 2005, the first year it was available in the US), and I am attached to it.  I still need a family car, since the kids aren\u2019t old enough to ride in the Elise, and I am still a believer in electric vehicles as the future of personal transportation (with that future starting now).  <\/p>\n<p>As such, circumstances have created a workable compromise.  Last week I bought a Nissan Leaf \u2013 an all-electric vehicle.  I love it.  And with the purchase I was able to derive the following equation:<\/p>\n<p>1 Lotus Elise  +  1 Nissan Leaf  + $20K  =  1 Tesla Roadster<\/p>\n<p>The numbers don\u2019t lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tesla Roadster is just about the coolest car on the planet. Starting with the body of a Lotus Elise, Tesla adds an electric engine and a bunch of laptop batteries to create fabulous style, amazing speed, and a perfectly green image. What more could a car buff want? OK, one could hope for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}