{"id":22306,"date":"2018-06-11T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=22306"},"modified":"2018-06-02T01:39:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T23:39:45","slug":"mini-unveils-electric-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/mini-unveils-electric-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Unveils Electric Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the original Mini Cooper is an iconic, chugging classic with mechanics that might be a little dated, it&#8217;s still a highly sought-after vehicle, and Mini, being aware of this, is moving with the times.<\/p>\n<p>Mini has announced that a new Mini Cooper with a fully electric drive-train is in the works. However, we shouldn\u2019t get too excited just yet, though, as this won&#8217;t be a full production model, but rather a concept vehicle to showcase the company&#8217;s ambitions in the electric car market.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22307\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Electric-Mini-vehicles.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Electric-Mini-vehicles.jpeg 800w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Electric-Mini-vehicles-300x200.jpeg 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Electric-Mini-vehicles-768x513.jpeg 768w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Electric-Mini-vehicles-104x69.jpeg 104w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This resurrection of the classic Mini comes as a prelude to the Mini Electric Concept, which was announced at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show \u2013 and precedes the brand\u2019s first all electric car, due in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>As more and more alternative energy technologies become better researched and developed expect brands to create more fanfare around their electric cars, with Mini leading the charge within the BMW stable.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Love electric innovations? Check out some exciting gadgets online at PriceCheck.co.za!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/5\/Electronics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21641\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Buttons_ViewOffers.png\" alt=\"view offers\" width=\"278\" height=\"53\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Buttons_ViewOffers.png 550w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Buttons_ViewOffers-300x57.png 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Buttons_ViewOffers-536x105.png 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Want more tech-related reads? Here are the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/2018\/04\/17\/5-awesome-benefits-of-wireless-charging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5 Awesome Benefits of Wireless Charging<\/a>, and if you want to drop your jaw at some spectacular vehicles, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/2017\/09\/14\/5-most-expensive-cars-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5 most expensive cars in the world<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h5 data-unsp-sanitized=\"clean\">Want More Technology News? Check Out Our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/category\/tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-unsp-sanitized=\"clean\">Tech<\/a>\u00a0Section For More Great Reads?<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built as a show piece, the car features an electric powertrain in a restored 1959 Mini Cooper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":22308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2850],"tags":[248,3418,3419,536,2779,3140,3412],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Electric-mini.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22306"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22309,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22306\/revisions\/22309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}