{"id":169399,"date":"2017-12-24T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/bmw-explains-how-pretertyping-saved-it-from-building-battery-hauling-trailer\/"},"modified":"2017-12-24T13:00:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T20:00:33","slug":"bmw-explains-how-pretertyping-saved-it-from-building-battery-hauling-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/bmw-explains-how-pretertyping-saved-it-from-building-battery-hauling-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW Explains How \u201cPretertyping\u201d Saved It From Building Battery-Hauling Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/InsideEvs\/~3\/vW-s4vEH998\/\">Chris Bruce<\/a><\/span>  It saved the company from building a range-extending trailer for hauling extra EV batteries. Automotive designers come up with lots of ideas that never hit the road, and BMW has a system called \u201cpretertyping\u201d as a way of testing those early shapes before even building a concept, according to Automotive <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/InsideEvs\/~3\/vW-s4vEH998\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/InsideEvs\/~3\/vW-s4vEH998\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BMW Explains How \u201cPretertyping\u201d Saved It From Building Battery-Hauling Trailer\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/InsideEvs\/~3\/vW-s4vEH998\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It saved the company from building a range-extending trailer for hauling extra EV batteries. Automotive designers come up with lots of ideas that never hit the road, and BMW has a system called \u201cpretertyping\u201d as a way of testing those early shapes before even building a concept, according to Automotive <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/InsideEvs\/~3\/vW-s4vEH998\/\" 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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insideevs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169399","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=169399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}