{"id":12021,"date":"2014-08-20T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12021"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:05:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:05:44","slug":"12021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/12021","title":{"rendered":"BMW Launches Its Answer to Tesla\u2019s Supercharger Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/alex-davies\/\" rel=\"author\">Alex Davies<\/a> \u2014 Wired<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>The biggest problem automakers selling electric cars face is limited range. No one wants to get caught without any juice. To get around this concern, Tesla, whose Model S offers the best range (up to 265 miles), is building a vast network of \u201cSupercharger\u201d stations that make it possible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/07\/tesla-supercharger-road-trip\/\">to take epic road trips<\/a>. Now BMW is following suit, launching a network of charging stations to make owning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2013\/07\/bmw-i3\/\">its first all-electric car<\/a>, the range-handicapped i3, more convenient.<\/p>\n<p>The automaker announced last week that it has developed an impressively small, lightweight, and inexpensive charger that it is working to install around the country. BMW will sell the charger to \u201cauthorized partners\u201d\u2014starting with dealers\u2014for $6,548. NRG eVgo, a private EV-charging company, will install at least 100 around California and offer free charging to i3 owners through the end of 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/08\/bmw-i3-charger-network\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alex Davies \u2014 Wired The biggest problem automakers selling electric cars face is limited range. No one wants to get caught without any juice. To get around this concern, Tesla, whose Model S offers the best range (up to 265 miles), is building a vast network of \u201cSupercharger\u201d stations that make it possible to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64925,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021\/revisions\/64925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}