{"id":286,"date":"2014-10-25T16:09:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T23:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/?p=286"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T23:56:02","slug":"the-solar-bike-is-longer-than-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/the-solar-bike-is-longer-than-a-car\/","title":{"rendered":"The Solar Bike is Longer than a Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/files\/2014\/10\/SideBySide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"377\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/files\/2014\/10\/SideBySide.jpg\" alt=\"Here is the solar bike parked in the fuel efficient vehicle spot. \" class=\"wp-image-288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/files\/2014\/10\/SideBySide.jpg 640w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/files\/2014\/10\/SideBySide-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Here is the solar bike parked in the fuel efficient vehicle spot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If anyone gives me any heat about parking in that space, I&#8217;ll remind them that I <strong>am<\/strong> fuel efficient and I am also a vehicle. <em>What was that, the space isn&#8217;t for bikes, only for powered vehicles?<\/em> I&#8217;m electric.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/files\/2014\/10\/CarVsBike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"444\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/files\/2014\/10\/CarVsBike.jpg\" alt=\"Including the panel, the solar bike is actually longer than the electric car (Fiat 500e) parked next to it.\" class=\"wp-image-287\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/files\/2014\/10\/CarVsBike.jpg 640w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/files\/2014\/10\/CarVsBike-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Including the panel, the solar bike is actually <strong>longer<\/strong> than the electric car (Fiat 500e) parked next to it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, the car has far more speed and carrying capacity than me. But it also has to plug in every once in a while. My bike never needs to plug in, so you might say it has near infinite range. Not that I would take it on a long trip. Not yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone gives me any heat about parking in that space, I&#8217;ll remind them that I am fuel efficient and I am also a vehicle. What was that, the space isn&#8217;t for bikes, only for powered vehicles? I&#8217;m electric. Of course, the car has far more speed and carrying capacity than me. But it also &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/the-solar-bike-is-longer-than-a-car\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Solar Bike is Longer than a Car<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,37,34,39,36,38],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mechanical","tag-500e","tag-electric","tag-fiat","tag-fuel-efficient","tag-parking","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/solarbike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}