{"id":5404,"date":"2021-01-10T00:51:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5404"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:28:00","slug":"popular-mechanics-samples-the-venturi-eclectic-solar-buggy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5404","title":{"rendered":"Popular Mechanics samples the Venturi Eclectic solar buggy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We first saw the aptly named <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2006\/09\/29\/paris-motor-show-venturi-eclectic-with-solar-and-wind-power\/\">Venturi Eclectic<\/a> at last year&#x27;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/paris-motor-show\/\">Paris Motor Show<\/a> and the company has now brought one to sunny southern California. The sunny part is important since the roof is covered with photo-voltaic cells. If left parked in the sun all day it can absorb enough energy to extend the standard 30-mile range by an extra 4-5 miles. If a breeze is available the roof mounted wind turbine can purportedly add another 10 miles of range. Venturi hopes to start selling the first 200 examples of this neighborhood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/electric\/\">electric vehicle<\/a> next spring for just over $30,000. The team from Popular Mechanics got to sample the Eclectic and <a href=\"http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/link\/bcpid1213900526\/bctid1225944030\">have put up a video of the experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: Popular Mechanics, thanks to Matt for the tip]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/10\/03\/popular-mechanics-samples-the-venturi-eclectic-solar-buggy\/<\/p>\n<p>2007-10-03T16:01:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We first saw the aptly named Venturi Eclectic at last year&#x27;s Paris Motor Show and the company has now brought one to sunny southern California. The sunny part is important since the roof is covered with photo-voltaic cells. If left parked in the sun\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9971,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}