e-car or e-bike
A few months ago I decided to look into buying a used Nissan leaf. For $4-6k one can get a 2012-14 Leaf with about 70% battery pack life left and around 100 miles per charge. With a little upgrade one can increase that range to 200miles. I could use WinSol so!ar and battery system to charge the Leaf and meet 80% of my driving needs. I would still keep my current AWD SUV for winter and super long distance (SLC, Oregon+) trips. And then I read a WIRED article about e-cars being a big problem. https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-i-used-to-love-cars-heres-what-drove-me-away/ https://eu.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2019/10/23/european-countries-like-germany-italy-and-netherlands-e-bikes-now-make-up-nearly-quarter-all-bike-sa/4022117002/ And it wasn't about hydrogen or any fuel, but about the car itself and how we've been snookered by politicians and corporations into believing that all we need to do is get a zero emission car and our environment will l...