{"id":579874,"date":"2010-05-26T17:58:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T21:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=8131"},"modified":"2010-05-26T17:58:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T21:58:02","slug":"quirky-ev-is-made-with-bamboo-and-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579874","title":{"rendered":"Quirky EV is Made with Bamboo and Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8141 aligncenter\" title=\"meguru-620x465\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/05\/meguru-620x465-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">So, clearly, this little car is not meant for the mass market of the United States. It\u00a0resembles a traditional rickshaw, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/21\/meguru-japans-bamboo-powered-electric-car-videos\/\">Meguru<\/a> is an electric car made of bamboo, steel and paper. It has a range of 25 miles per charge, and a top speed of 25 mph. It&#8217;s lithium battery takes two hours to charge. The frame is made of steel, the floor is bamboo and\u00a0 the fan-shaped doors are actually made of paper from wood pulp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Estimated price for this novel form of Asian nostalgia? Less than $10,000.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/05\/26\/quirky-ev-is-made-with-bamboo-and-paper\/#more-8131\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=gb3iaWau78g:jr5ALEvAr4c:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=gb3iaWau78g:jr5ALEvAr4c:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=gb3iaWau78g:jr5ALEvAr4c:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=gb3iaWau78g:jr5ALEvAr4c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=gb3iaWau78g:jr5ALEvAr4c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=gb3iaWau78g:jr5ALEvAr4c:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=gb3iaWau78g:jr5ALEvAr4c:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=gb3iaWau78g:jr5ALEvAr4c:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/gb3iaWau78g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, clearly, this little car is not meant for the mass market of the United States. It\u00a0resembles a traditional rickshaw, but the Meguru is an electric car made of bamboo, steel and paper. It has a range of 25 miles per charge, and a top speed of 25 mph. It&#8217;s lithium battery takes two hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":583,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/583"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}