In the US, the New Deal's Rural Electrification Act was quite successful. However, in some European nations even today you can still find old farms out in the sticks that have never had electricity. Imagine fitting such a place with a generous offgrid PV array, and parking your EV beside it. (In a lot of the more derelict cases you'd have to put up a new roof before you could add PV to it. :-\)
I welcome comment and criticism from our European correspondents, but if my admittedly cursory reading about this is right, this might actually be practical - at least for some (patient) folks. Many of these places, while well away from big cities, are near small villages, and within EV range of train stations. Who needs to rent an ICE for long trips when you have a complete rail network at your disposal? Better yet, at least some of the trains are electric. Just dreaming, I guess, but still ... David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
