{"id":146641,"date":"2016-03-16T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/consumer-reports-avoid-buying-used-2014-bmw-i3-electric-cars\/"},"modified":"2016-03-16T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T12:30:00","slug":"consumer-reports-avoid-buying-used-2014-bmw-i3-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/consumer-reports-avoid-buying-used-2014-bmw-i3-electric-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Reports: avoid buying used 2014 BMW i3 electric cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1102878_consumer-reports-avoid-buying-used-2014-bmw-i3-electric-cars\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.hgmsites.net\/tmb\/2014-bmw-i3_100435121_t.gif?w=90\" alt=\"2014 BMW i3\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The BMW i3 electric car has been on sale in the U.S. since May 2014, meaning some of the earliest examples are now likely turning up on used-car lots. So does BMW&#8217;s radical electric city car make a good used-car purchase? If you are planning on going that route, it might be best to avoid the earliest cars available, suggests Consumer Reports&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1102878_consumer-reports-avoid-buying-used-2014-bmw-i3-electric-cars\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1102878_consumer-reports-avoid-buying-used-2014-bmw-i3-electric-cars\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" src=\"http:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/tmb\/2014-bmw-i3_100435121_t.gif\" alt=\"2014 BMW i3\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The BMW i3 electric car has been on sale in the U.S. since May 2014, meaning some of the earliest examples are now likely turning up on used-car lots. So does BMW&#8217;s radical electric city car make a good used-car purchase? If you are planning on going that route, it might be best to avoid the earliest cars available, suggests Consumer Reports&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1102878_consumer-reports-avoid-buying-used-2014-bmw-i3-electric-cars\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greencarreports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}