{"id":1856,"date":"2010-10-13T21:28:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T04:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2010-10-13T21:28:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T04:28:50","slug":"i-drove-a-new-car-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2010\/10\/i-drove-a-new-car-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I drove a new car today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at work I had the chance to test drive a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chevrolet.com\/pages\/open\/default\/future\/volt.do\">Chevy Volt<\/a>, GM&#8217;s electric (or plug-in hybrid, or whatever you want to call it) car. I&#8217;m a big fan of electric cars, so this was a lot of fun for me as it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve actually driven one.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of a review, there&#8217;s really not much to say, as it&#8217;s not much different than what you&#8217;d expect any car to be like. It felt like it had more torque than my Accord, so that was fun, plus I just like the sound of an electric motor. The only part of the driving experience that felt different than what I&#8217;m used to was during the regenerative braking, but it wasn&#8217;t distracting. You can also throw it into low gear which will also try to capture some energy when you let off the gas, which I suppose you could get used to and only engage while driving in a hilly area.<\/p>\n<p>Up next: I&#8217;ll be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drivenissanleaf.com\">test-driving a Nissan Leaf<\/a> on Halloween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at work I had the chance to test drive a Chevy Volt, GM&#8217;s electric (or plug-in hybrid, or whatever you want to call it) car. I&#8217;m a big fan of electric cars, so this was a lot of fun for me as it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve actually driven one. In terms of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2010\/10\/i-drove-a-new-car-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I drove a new car today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}