{"version":"1.0.0","episode":{"title":"Do We Get Paid to Review Cars?! Press Trip Secrets Revealed | Ep 88 | Drive Torque Podcast","url":"http://getcarcurious.com/episodes/do-we-get-paid-to-review-cars-press-trip-secrets-revealed-ep-88-drive-torque-podcast","audioUrl":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2118480/episodes/19146126-do-we-get-paid-to-review-cars-press-trip-secrets-revealed-ep-88-drive-torque-podcast.mp3","description":"Don't forget to send us your questions or subject for future episodes.Subscribe/Follow, give us a rating and give us a follow on Instagram for all the latest Podcast news - https://www.instagram.com/drivetorque...Cheers and see you at the next one 👊"},"annotations":[{"startTime":18.6,"endTime":24.34,"type":"car","title":"Alpine A290 Plus","url":"/cars/alpine/a290","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/2024_Alpine_A290_GTS.jpg","quote":"Well, my new long-term, my second new long-term. 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They’re saying the other Alpine they’re talking about borrows the A110’s idea for where the gear selector sits.","imageAttribution":"Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0"}},{"startTime":138.8,"endTime":167.6,"type":"concept","title":"range anxiety","url":"/glossary/range-anxiety","quote":"Its issue is range if you are... [142.0s] It's very, very temperature sensitive. [144.4s] So the old one I had, it's gone... When it was a little bit colder a couple of weeks ago, with 100% charge, it only showed 175 miles.","canonicalId":"concept:range-anxiety","priority":0.65,"confidence":0.85,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"Range anxiety is the worry that an electric car won’t have enough battery to finish a trip and get back. This segment highlights it with temperature sensitivity and real-world range drops (e.g., 175 miles vs 215 miles at 100% charge).","simplifiedExplanation":"Range anxiety is the fear you might run out of battery before you’re done driving. 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