{"id":88395,"date":"2019-03-05T10:42:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/startup-says-its-electric-car-charges-to-80-percent-in-5-minutes"},"modified":"2019-03-05T10:42:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:42:56","slug":"startup-says-its-electric-car-charges-to-80-percent-in-5-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/startup-says-its-electric-car-charges-to-80-percent-in-5-minutes","title":{"rendered":"Startup Says Its Electric Car Charges to 80 Percent in 5 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/startup-says-its-electric-car-charges-to-80-percent-in-5-minutes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Porsche <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/02\/26\/porsche-macan-first-compact-suv-ev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made headlines<\/a> for a battery it says can be charged with 400 kilometers (250 miles) of range in 15 minutes. If Pi\u00ebch\u2019s claims about a 4:40 charge hold up, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/02\/26\/porsche-macan-first-compact-suv-ev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><i>Engadget<\/i><\/em> pointed out<\/a>, they\u2019ll blow Porsche\u2019s technology out of the water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have developed a sports car that we ourselves would like to buy, and we talked for a long time to many enthusiasts about what was missing on the market,\u201d co-founder Toni Pi\u00ebch said in the press release. \u201cWe want to offer a modern classic that isn\u2019t subject to consumer cycles. The driver of this sports car should enjoy any minute they can spend in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/03\/03\/piech-mark-zero-ev-sports-car\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pi\u00ebch\u2019s electric coupe charges to 80 percent in five minutes<\/a> [<i>Engadget<\/i>]<strong> <\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/electric-car-charges-80-percent-minutes\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/electric-car-charges-80-percent-minutes<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porsche made headlines for a battery it says can be charged with 400 kilometers (250 miles) of range in 15 minutes. If Pi\u00ebch\u2019s claims about a 4:40 charge hold up, Engadget pointed out, they\u2019ll blow Porsche\u2019s technology out of the water. \u201cWe have developed a sports car that we ourselves would like to buy, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88395","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}