The book is interesting to read. You can reada bit about the book and
order a used copy at:
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?S=R&qisbn=0393034070&qsort=p&siteID=JaJqVekCebc-GJarmqeETEhEbax.tLOH5Q
It's an interesting adventure--buying the car in California while living in
Vermont, transporting the car from California to
Vermont and driving the car in Vermont.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Saunders" <[email protected]>
To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 12:41 PM
Subject: [EVDL] EV attitudes
> BTW, I recently read a book called Solo: Life with an Electric Car which
> was written in the early 90s. That was quite an experience because the
> author touches on factors that were in play immediately preceding the
> California EV boom of the late 90s. The author spends a lot of his time
> playing apologist for the drawbacks
> of a lead-acid based conversion. He attempts to make a cross-country
> trek and he quickly tires of wasting time waiting for the thing to charge
> and buys a trailer.
> He winds up unhitching his car only for brief jaunts. He opted for
> solar panels bolted onto the body which provided almost no extra range
> even when the car sits
> in the sun all day. A lot of the wishful thinking about new battery
> chemistries I see people express here today, he was expressing over 15
> years ago. The only difference I see in attitude between then and now is
> that back then he was primarily motivated by reducing smog (and a hint
> about global warming) whereas today we have fullblown global warming, peak
> oil, and not wanting to "fund terrorism". All the anticipation for
> advances "right around the corner" he writes about persist today. It
> makes you cynical about the future.
>
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order a used copy at:
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?S=R&qisbn=0393034070&qsort=p&siteID=JaJqVekCebc-GJarmqeETEhEbax.tLOH5Q
It's an interesting adventure--buying the car in California while living in
Vermont, transporting the car from California to
Vermont and driving the car in Vermont.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Saunders" <[email protected]>
To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 12:41 PM
Subject: [EVDL] EV attitudes
> BTW, I recently read a book called Solo: Life with an Electric Car which
> was written in the early 90s. That was quite an experience because the
> author touches on factors that were in play immediately preceding the
> California EV boom of the late 90s. The author spends a lot of his time
> playing apologist for the drawbacks
> of a lead-acid based conversion. He attempts to make a cross-country
> trek and he quickly tires of wasting time waiting for the thing to charge
> and buys a trailer.
> He winds up unhitching his car only for brief jaunts. He opted for
> solar panels bolted onto the body which provided almost no extra range
> even when the car sits
> in the sun all day. A lot of the wishful thinking about new battery
> chemistries I see people express here today, he was expressing over 15
> years ago. The only difference I see in attitude between then and now is
> that back then he was primarily motivated by reducing smog (and a hint
> about global warming) whereas today we have fullblown global warming, peak
> oil, and not wanting to "fund terrorism". All the anticipation for
> advances "right around the corner" he writes about persist today. It
> makes you cynical about the future.
>
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