{"id":170,"date":"2025-08-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2025-08-10T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:00:00","slug":"why-carmakers-are-betting-on-smaller-batteries-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Why Carmakers Are Betting on Smaller Batteries Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something is changing in the car world, and the implications reach further than they first appear.<\/p>\n<p>It is tempting to treat this as settled, but the reality is more interesting.<\/p>\n<h2 class='wp-block-heading'>What is really going on<\/h2>\n<p>Manufacturers and enthusiasts often want different things, and that tension drives much of what we are seeing. What looks like a simple trend usually hides a tug-of-war between cost, regulation and genuine engineering progress.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>The interesting questions in cars are rarely about what changed \u2014 they are about why, and what it costs us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 class='wp-block-heading'>The other side<\/h2>\n<p>None of this means the old approach is obsolete. There are real situations where it remains the better answer, and pretending otherwise helps no one.<\/p>\n<h2 class='wp-block-heading'>The bottom line<\/h2>\n<p>Whatever happens next, the old assumptions no longer apply. Buyers and enthusiasts alike will be better served by keeping an open mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Carmakers Are Betting on Smaller Batteries Again \u2014 what it means, why it matters and what to watch next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55,54],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-analysis","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}