{"id":2268,"date":"2024-06-15T12:25:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T16:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/mcq1press\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2024-06-15T12:25:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T16:25:28","slug":"evco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=2268","title":{"rendered":"EVCO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was out for my usual Saturday morning e-bike ride, when I decided out of the blue to stop for a coffee at the Second Cup on Merivale Road. As I was parking my bike, I was approached by a couple of gents who wanted to talk about the brand and my experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After chatting with them a bit it turns out they were members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/evco.ca\">Electric Vehicle Council of Ottawa (EVCO)<\/a>, which is a group of electric vehicle enthusiasts which meets regularly at various coffee shops around Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, they were checking out an electric Fiat 500 that one of the members had brought up from Montreal. As a past Abarth owner, I was very interested. It\u2019s a nice looking mini car, which would be fine for zipping around the city, although I did wonder about range limitations versus driving from Montreal. Hm\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless, it\u2019s always nice to see more people who understand the value of electric vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out for my usual Saturday morning e-bike ride, when I decided out of the blue to stop for a coffee at the Second Cup on Merivale Road. As I was parking my bike, I was approached by a couple of gents who wanted to talk about the brand and my experiences. After chatting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20,50],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-bike","tag-electric-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}