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Old 11-09-2016, 03:42 AM   #129 (permalink)
Erasmo
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zackary View Post
Yes. All electric would be ideal. But to get to Denver I'd have to cross the continental divide 3 times and climb mountains up to 11,500ft and down to 5,000ft. Some stretches there's no place to plug in until I'd be barely there on one bar, if I don't use AC or heat and drive like my grandpa. So about once a month I'll have to take the 1985 Golf with its black smoke cloud.

Now if I had an extension cord and a range extending battery/solar panel or the like, perhaps mounted on a trailer, that would be ideal. An aluminum air battery would be great! But if a battery costs the same as another car...
Don't forget to identify your prime charging spots for that trip and start pushing to have stations erected at those places.
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