{"id":6170,"date":"2011-11-20T22:14:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T06:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2011-11-21T21:05:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T05:05:10","slug":"random-pics-and-random-thoughts-for-the-sf-2011-autoshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/random-pics-and-random-thoughts-for-the-sf-2011-autoshow\/","title":{"rendered":"Random pics and random thoughts for the SF 2011 AutoShow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BMW-electricE-e1321855974146.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6172\" title=\"BMW electricE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BMW-electricE-e1321855974146-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BMW-electricE-e1321855974146-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BMW-electricE-e1321855974146-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BMW-electricE-e1321855974146.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Walking through San Francisco on Sunday and decided at the last minuet to stop in at the car show. I wanted to have a look at the latest series of electric car offerings.\u00a0 The usual suspects were there, but no edge players.\u00a0 Shame.\u00a0 Heck, Tesla was not even there.<\/p>\n<p>But BMW was with their newest offering with the electricE.\u00a0 And this is what I wanted to see.\u00a0 And the bloody thing was locked and they did not have the key!!\u00a0 WTH?\u00a0 So there goes my story, but I did notice one thing about the car, and then noticed the same with with the Chevy Volt when I looked at it.\u00a0 WHY do electric cars that mimic normal car designs have a high water line?\u00a0 It looks really bad.\u00a0 This is especially true with the BMW.\u00a0\u00a0 WHY?<\/p>\n<p>Its a shame.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H3>Related Posts<\/H3><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Self driving cars will make electric cars more practicable, and mechanics less populous\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/self-driving-cars-will-make-electric-cars-more-practicable-and-mechanics-less-populous\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Self driving cars will make electric cars more practicable, and mechanics less populous<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"How Tesla caught the New York Times faking a test drive and why this is more then just a bad reporter story\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/how-tesla-caught-nyt-faking-a-test-drive\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Tesla caught the New York Times faking a test drive and why this is more then just a bad reporter story<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"No, your Telsa will NOT brick if you leave it uncharged\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/no-your-telsa-will-not-brick-if-you-leave-it-uncharged\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">No, your Telsa will NOT brick if you leave it uncharged<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Electric Networked Vehicle shown at CES 2011\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/env-shown-ces-2011\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Electric Networked Vehicle shown at CES 2011<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking through San Francisco on Sunday and decided at the last minuet to stop in at the car show. I wanted to have a look at the latest series of electric car offerings.\u00a0 The usual suspects were there, but no edge players.\u00a0 Shame.\u00a0 Heck, Tesla was not even there. But BMW was with their newest&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/random-pics-and-random-thoughts-for-the-sf-2011-autoshow\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,91],"tags":[1434,1435,973],"class_list":["post-6170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-review","category-random-thoughts","tag-autoshow","tag-bmw","tag-electric-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-1Bw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6174,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions\/6174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}