{"id":2805,"date":"2016-04-18T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/mercedes-re-thinks-electric-cars-with-an-snl-twist-and-9000-batteries\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T18:04:08","slug":"mercedes-re-thinks-electric-cars-with-an-snl-twist-and-9000-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/mercedes-re-thinks-electric-cars-with-an-snl-twist-and-9000-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes re-thinks electric cars with an &#039;SNL&#039; twist &#8212; and 9,000 batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mercedes_aa_class\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE3LzJjL01lcmNlZGVzX0FBLmQxOGFhLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/2741cffe\/ce9\/Mercedes_AA_Class.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Mercedes+re-thinks+electric+cars+with+an+%27SNL%27+twist+%E2%80%94+and+9%2C000+batteries&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F17%2Fmercedes-aa-batteries%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F17%2Fmercedes-aa-batteries%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Electric cars may be the future, but they&#8217;re more expensive than their gas-guzzling counterparts and tougher to recharge (<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/01\/tesla-supercharger-expansion\/\">for now<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Enter the Mercedes-Benz AA Class, an all-new vision for electric driving \u2014 compliments of <i>Saturday Night Live \u2014 <\/i>that skips far-flung charging stations and wait times in favor of replaceable batteres. AA batteries. 9,648 of them, to be exact.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/17\/julia-louis-dreyfus-snl-poolboy\/\">Julia Louis-Dreyfus brings out her cougar side in nearly perfect SNL sketch<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Swapping that many batteries in and out may not be cost-effective or time-saving, but at least it&#8217;s a process that everyone can understand. Anyone who&#8217;s old enough to drive a car at this point can still remember a time before rechargeable batteries were used in everything, right? <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/17\/mercedes-aa-batteries\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/electric-cars\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Electric Cars<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/mercedes-benz\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Mercedes Benz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/tv\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tv<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/saturday-night-live\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/NxbYW2BXFUs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric cars may be the future, but they&#8217;re more expensive than their gas-guzzling counterparts and tougher to recharge (for now). Enter the Mercedes-Benz AA Class, an all-new vision for electric driving \u2014 compliments of Saturday Night Live \u2014 that skips &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/mercedes-re-thinks-electric-cars-with-an-snl-twist-and-9000-batteries\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2028,739,1220,1086,810],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-electric-cars","tag-entertainment","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}