{"id":10728,"date":"2016-06-14T09:53:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T13:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/?p=10728"},"modified":"2016-06-14T09:53:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T13:53:25","slug":"my-tesla-goes-to-the-gas-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/my-tesla-goes-to-the-gas-station\/","title":{"rendered":"My Tesla goes to the gas station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_6394.jpg\" alt=\"Inspection station\" title=\"IMG_6394.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"599\" height=\"442\" style=\"left;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I received my Massachusetts registration last night by email, so all I had to do today to be fully legal was get the car inspected. As I noted in a previous post, one of Tesla&#8217;s unique challenges in Massachusetts is that it is not allowed to inspect its cars like a normal car dealership. Why? Well, Tesla doesn&#8217;t have a MA-certified emissions exhaust system in its service centers, and that&#8217;s a requirement for an inspection station. The fact that all of Tesla&#8217;s cars are zero emissions doesn&#8217;t seem to eliminate the requirement, and it&#8217;s a fairly expensive system to install to never use it. Ergo, my Tesla had to visit my local gas station, where I will never buy gasoline, to make my car legal.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in case anyone is wondering, I do have MA plates on the car, but I&#8217;ve blurred them out for privacy reasons. They aren&#8217;t actually the final plates for the car anyway; I have ham radio operator plates being made by the RMV, but they haven&#8217;t arrived yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received my Massachusetts registration last night by email, so all I had to do today to be fully legal was get the car inspected. As I noted in a previous post, one of Tesla&#8217;s unique challenges in Massachusetts is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/my-tesla-goes-to-the-gas-station\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[840],"class_list":["post-10728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10729,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions\/10729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}