{"id":1180,"date":"2014-05-22T11:06:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2014-05-22T11:06:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:06:54","slug":"crushed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/activee\/crushed\/","title":{"rendered":"Crushed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\n  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');<\/p>\n<p>  ga('create', 'UA-49483645-1', 'pascual.co');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');<\/p>\n<p><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8245538@N06\/14059397050\" title=\"Crushed ActiveEs by Dennis Pascual, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2910\/14059397050_e534744547_o.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Crushed ActiveEs\"><\/a><br \/>\nThis picture was from the tweet from Chris Neff, owner unknown and uncredited.<\/p>\n<p>Several tweets, pictures, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/transportevolved.com\/2014\/05\/22\/history-repeats-bmw-openly-crushes-active-e-electric-car\/\">post<\/a> have come by recently that has confirmed what I&#8217;ve intellectually understood would happen, but refuse to accept.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Some lease end <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23BMW&amp;src=hash\">#BMW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ActiveE&amp;src=hash\">#ActiveE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23EVs&amp;src=hash\">#EVs<\/a> do not go to a happy place <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/nf5beh7qYH\">pic.twitter.com\/nf5beh7qYH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris (@cneff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cneff\/statuses\/469435964939448320\">May 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I am crushed.  At first glance, and following Airton&#8217;s tweet, I thought that the cars spotted were in NJ and I was saddened, but not crushed&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cneff\">@cneff<\/a> There&#39;s ours without the decals i bet \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Airton Azevedo (@Azevedo_Airton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Azevedo_Airton\/statuses\/469469422952792065\">May 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, at further inspection, the freeway sign was for CA-91 and that is a freeway that I often cross in my many drives throughout Southern California.  The reality is one of those cars could actually be &#8220;my&#8221; Active E.  I had such high hopes when it was announced that another eighty ActiveEs were making the trek to Northern California to join DriveNow.  Now, I suspected, and others have mentioned that perhaps the spraypaint on the side refers to particular VIN numbers&#8230;  If that&#8217;s the case, I can still hope that my car is in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, I am extremely sad at these pictures, but thankful that the Active E has made me Accidentally Environmental.  I didn&#8217;t care about climate change before my Active E.  I wasn&#8217;t denying it&#8217;s existence, just not really doing anything about it.  And now&#8230;  I do a little bit more. <\/p>\n<p>Alas, these pictures bring me back to a jarring reality.<\/p>\n<p>I am, metaphorically, crushed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture was from the tweet from Chris Neff, owner unknown and uncredited. Several tweets, pictures, and a post have come by recently that has confirmed what I&#8217;ve intellectually understood would happen, but refuse to accept. Some lease end #BMW #ActiveE #EVs do not go to a happy place pic.twitter.com\/nf5beh7qYH &mdash; Chris (@cneff) May 22, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/activee\/crushed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crushed&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[87,149,153,281],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activee","tag-activee","tag-bmw-activee","tag-bmwi","tag-drivenow"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}