{"id":290,"date":"2012-07-25T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/?p=290"},"modified":"2012-07-25T12:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T19:29:10","slug":"space-the-final-frontier-the-difference-between-built-electric-and-a-converted-ice-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/activee\/space-the-final-frontier-the-difference-between-built-electric-and-a-converted-ice-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"Space… the Final Frontier. The difference between built Electric and a converted ICE Electric"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, I was challenged by my better half to fit everything we needed to haul up to my sister-in-law’s house for our niece’s Fourth Birthday party. \u00a0She thought that we needed to use our ever reliable X5 to do it’s hauling duty and I asserted that I thought we could take the ActiveE. \u00a0Figuring that after many years of marriage, the worst that could happen was that I would have to accept defeat, I decided to prove it.<\/p>\n

So, as Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother<\/em> would say, “Challenge Accepted.” \u00a0In retrospect, I should’ve taken pictures of all the items that I had to pack into the ActiveE, but we had a kid’s birthday party to help get set up, and didn’t really have the time to dawdle. \u00a0So the picturess are of the stuff IN the car…<\/p>\n

To remind everyone… This is what I had to work with:<\/p>\n

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I also have a backseat where the seats fold down to carry stuff with, which I used, but the electric motor hump really does take the space. \u00a0(that’s the section that has the ActiveE written on the carpet.)<\/p>\n

These next three shots are what was packed behind the front seats with the passenger seats folded down.<\/p>\n

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Here it is closed:<\/p>\n

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Right side of the trunk:<\/p>\n

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Close up –<\/p>\n

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Left side of the trunk:<\/p>\n

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Needless to say, we packed a lot of stuff.<\/p>\n

Distributed throughout the back are 8 bottles of wine (for the adults, not the 4 year old kids, of course.) The rolled up dusty thing is a rug that we use to lay outdoors. You would’ve also noted a 3 course buffet server in the backseat.<\/p>\n

So, not only was the challenge accepted, I was also able to accomplish the task. \u00a0Being an Electronut means being very motivated to try to stay away from driving any ICE, EVEN<\/strong> something as fun to drive as a BMW X5.<\/p>\n

The balloons, were for a giant popcorn display that my better half made for the party (it was a Princess party with a movie at the end of the night, Beauty and the Beast<\/em>, if you must know.)<\/p>\n

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If you’re paying close attention, you may have noticed that we DID<\/strong> lose a couple of balloons, but these were lost AT<\/strong> the destination, and thus not in the transport or difference between traveling with the X5 vs. the ActiveE.<\/p>\n

So, what did this exercise prove. The ActiveE can make a quick stand-in for the X5, in a pinch, but it’s definitely one of the reasons that my Costco trips have gotten cheaper. I really can’t carry much there. Just more than I initially thought.<\/p>\n

Which leads me to the second part of the thesis. These challenges occurred because we’re using a converted 1 series BMW. The hump does not exist in the Coda or the Tesla Model S.<\/p>\n

Here are two shots from the Coda’s cavernous trunk:<\/p>\n

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or the Tesla Model S<\/p>\n

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I am sure that neither one will haul as much as the X5, however, I would guess the upcoming Tesla Model X will. \u00a0I am sure that either the Coda or the Tesla Model S\u00a0CAN<\/strong> haul more than the ActiveE.<\/p>\n

I would think that the upcoming BMW i3 will ALSO<\/strong> have more hauling capacity than the ActiveE.<\/p>\n

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More i3 Pictures here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, as much as I really enjoy the ActiveE, the only positive of having to give it back to BMW at the end of the two years is I have something to look forward to with the NEXT<\/strong> generation of EVs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend, I was challenged by my better half to fit everything we needed to haul up to my sister-in-law’s house for our niece’s Fourth Birthday party. \u00a0She thought that we needed to use our ever reliable X5 to do it’s hauling duty and I asserted that I thought we could take the ActiveE. \u00a0Figuring … Continue reading Space… the Final Frontier. The difference between built Electric and a converted ICE Electric<\/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":[2,12],"tags":[87,217,223,225,733,788],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activee","category-other-electric-cars","tag-activee","tag-coda","tag-comparing-gas-vs-electric","tag-comparing-other-electric-cars-to-activee","tag-tesla-model-s","tag-trunk-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}