OK, I’m a slow starter. My interest in electric vehicles go way back to the late 1980’s. Back then I worked for Pacific Bell in San Ramon, California. Even in a building complex with 5,000+ employees, one gets to notice a bright red Karmann Ghia whose owner isn’t very shy about promoting the fact that it is battery powered. Heck, it even had a hair dryer serving as window defroster! Way too cool! So, I joined the Electric Auto Association, with the intention of converting a cool donor car to electric. I procrastinated, and eventually my interest waned, just as my membership with EAA expired.
So, what renewed this interest, hmmm, ~17 years later? My 2.1KW rooftop solar power plant installed in 2003 is a big factor. Selling excess power to the utility during the day and buying it back at a steep discount at night to ”fill ‘er up” is way too tempting. Plus my commute to work is now a whopping 10 miles a day, round trip. Add another 10 – 20 miles if I do errands or see clients in town, and now, we’re talking. An electric vehicle now makes perfect sense.
Even clean power needs cleaning:
Here’s the inspiration:
