{"id":8,"date":"2017-10-06T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T19:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/?p=8"},"modified":"2018-02-03T16:27:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T21:27:49","slug":"introducing-electric-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/2017\/10\/06\/introducing-electric-alice\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Electric Alice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electric Alice is our Volkswagen e-Golf, She is white, like a lot of Golfs and she is a 100% electric car. \u00a0With no gas or diesel engine we rely on charging at home or on the road to keep moving. Why Electric Alice? Alice as in Alice in Wonderland, buying this car was a trip down a rabbit hole to a different world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Alice-header.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Alice-header-1024x401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Alice-header-1024x401.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Alice-header-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Alice-header-768x301.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Alice-header.jpg 1150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why did we buy this car? \u00a0We choose an e-Golf firstly because it was a Golf. \u00a0I like Golfs, they are smallish, well designed and well built. \u00a0Golf&#8217;s fit our lifestyle and fit in our garage without requiring a huge reorganisation of all our stuff. \u00a0The e-Golf is just a better Golf, all the nasty diesel or gas bits are gone, replaced with an electric drivetrain. \u00a0We bought the car sight unseen<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few key facts about the car:<\/p>\n<p>Power &#8211; 100kW or 134 bhp<\/p>\n<p>Torque &#8211; 214lb-ft<\/p>\n<p>0-100km &#8211; 9.6 seconds<\/p>\n<p>Battery &#8211; 35.8kWh<\/p>\n<p>Range &#8211; 201km<\/p>\n<p>I am not a journalist, but Jonny Smith is and he has a great review of the e-Golf that reflects how we view the car.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VW e-Golf 2017 | Fully Charged\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ah4lrqWx8E0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Views: 401<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric Alice is our Volkswagen e-Golf, She is white, like a lot of Golfs and she is a 100% electric car. \u00a0With no gas or diesel engine we rely on charging at home or on the road to keep moving. Why Electric Alice? Alice as in Alice in Wonderland, buying this car was a trip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egolf"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/electricalice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}