{"id":136392,"date":"2022-03-03T19:22:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T03:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/elon-musk-explains-why-tesla-hasnt-tried-to-make-the-worlds-longest-range-electric-car-that-wouldve-made-the-product-worse"},"modified":"2022-03-03T19:22:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T03:22:41","slug":"elon-musk-explains-why-tesla-hasnt-tried-to-make-the-worlds-longest-range-electric-car-that-wouldve-made-the-product-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/elon-musk-explains-why-tesla-hasnt-tried-to-make-the-worlds-longest-range-electric-car-that-wouldve-made-the-product-worse","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk explains why Tesla hasn\u2019t tried to make the world\u2019s longest-range electric car: \u2018That would\u2019ve made the product worse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-explains-why-tesla-hasnt-tried-to-make-the-worlds-longest-range-electric-car-that-wouldve-made-the-product-worse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The weight from the additional battery cells required to match the range of gas cars would slow the car down and make it less efficient, Musk said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weight from the additional battery cells required to match the range of gas cars would slow the car down and make it less efficient, Musk said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136392","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}