{"id":281697,"date":"2017-03-02T08:25:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T12:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=8e61f5c21adb272b24097dff4fb3ac9c"},"modified":"2017-03-02T08:25:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T12:25:52","slug":"new-app-for-matching-electric-cars-to-the-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=281697","title":{"rendered":"New app for matching electric cars to the driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new app helps drivers decide if switching from a petrol-driven car to an electric car is a viable solution for them \u2013 and which vehicle model would be best suited to their individual requirements. It was developed by engineers at Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum under the auspices of Prof Dr Constantinos Sourkounis. Using the smartphone app, drivers can record their typical routes while, for instance, using their petrol-driven car. Based on the gathered data, the program generates a list of vehicle models that would meet the driver&#8217;s requirements, for example cars with sufficient range. Information pertaining to cost saving can also be provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new app helps drivers decide if switching from a petrol-driven car to an electric car is a viable solution for them &ndash; and which vehicle model would be best suited to their individual requirements. It was developed by engineers at Ruhr-Universit&auml;t Bochum under the auspices of Prof Dr Constantinos Sourkounis. Using the smartphone app, drivers can record their typical routes while, for instance, using their petrol-driven car. Based on the gathered data, the program generates a list of vehicle models that would meet the driver&#8217;s requirements, for example cars with sufficient range. Information pertaining to cost saving can also be provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281698,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281697\/revisions\/281698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}