{"id":3355,"date":"2011-01-17T01:03:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T06:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2011-01-16T21:44:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T02:44:59","slug":"icicle-ridge-winery-wa-to-add-car-charging-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/icicle-ridge-winery-wa-to-add-car-charging-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Icicle Ridge Winery, WA to Add Car-Charging Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wenatcheeworld.com\/news\/2011\/jan\/13\/ice-wine-with-some-voltage-winery-other-local\/\">\u201cPlug and Glug?<em> <\/em>Winery Hoping to Offer Car-Charging Station<\/a>&#8220;,\u00a0by Christine Pratt in<em> The Wenatchee World<\/em>, the owners of Icicle Ridge Winery in Washington State are planning to add a car charging station at their winery. As a car charges, visitors will be able to enjoy a glass of wine and take a tour of the winery. The car charging battery (240-volt \u201clevel II\u201d) should be available this spring. According to Pratt, \u201cThe winery is one of six area businesses or public centers hoping to plug into the tourism potential of a state plan to make Interstate 5 and part of Highway 2 friendly for electric cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Icicle Ridge Winery is leading the way to making it practical to use electric cars. Other car-charging facilities will be located in the region. These include Stevens Pass Ski Area, Sleeping Lady Resort, Leavenworth, Springhill Suites by Marriott-Wenatchee, Wenatchee Convention Center and Town Toyota. How soon will it add to the profits for businesses that add car-charging facilities? Only time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>The article by Pratt includes a great deal of information about the extent of support that the state of Washington is providing to support electric cars, tourism and business. What is your state doing?<\/p>\n<p>Will you purchase an electric car? Would you use it to travel to a winery?<\/p>\n<p>Cheers! Kathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Icicle Ridge Winery, WA to Add Car-Charging Station\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=3355\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article,\u00a0\u201cPlug and Glug? Winery Hoping to Offer Car-Charging Station&#8220;,\u00a0by Christine Pratt in The Wenatchee World, the owners of Icicle Ridge Winery in Washington State are planning to add a car charging station at their winery. As a car charges, visitors will be able to enjoy a glass of wine and take a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,156],"tags":[1862,1863,95,689,106],"class_list":["post-3355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-car-charging-station","tag-electric-car","tag-washington","tag-washington-state","tag-winery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}