{"id":27,"date":"2004-07-18T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2004-07-18T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/wpblog\/?p=27"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"solo-life-with-an-electric-car-by-noel-perrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Solo: life with an Electric Car by Noel Perrin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"leftbox\">            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?o=1&#038;l=as1&#038;f=ifr&#038;t=authorryanmwi-20&#038;dev-t=D68HUNXKLHS4J&#038;p=6&#038;asins=0871564971&#038;bg1=ffffff&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=6633ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;lt1=_blank\"><\/p>\n<map NAME=\"boxmap-p6\">\n<area SHAPE=\"RECT\" COORDS=\"1, 140, 83, 150\" HREF=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm\/privacy-policy.html?o=1\" >\n<area COORDS=\"0,0,10000,10000\" HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect-home\/authorryanmwi-20\" ><\/map>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-images.amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/rcm\/120x150.gif\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" usemap=\"#boxmap-p6\" alt=\"Shop at Amazon.com\"><\/iframe>    \n         <\/div>\n<p>Noel Perrin, Dartmouth college professor and farmer, decides to switch from his gas-guzzling truck to an electric car for his daily commute.  Not being inclined to convert a vehicle himself he turns to Solar Electric to buy a car.  This book tells his story as he takes &#8220;Solo&#8221; across the country from California to Vermont.  Initially he&#8217;d planned to drive Solo across the country but soon learns that his plan isn&#8217;t going to work the way he thought.  He ends up spending much of the time towing Solo behind a pickup.  At each stop he&#8217;s able to take Solo out to explore the town.  It&#8217;s an enjoyable book to read.  Once back in Vermont he talks about how Solo works as a commuter car and looks at the pollution savings.  Along the way he also talks about the history of electric cars. <\/p>\n<p>I really like this book.  There&#8217;s a newer edition from 1994 that&#8217;s supposed to update things a bit &#8212; but of course it&#8217;s ten years out of date now.  I also discovered that Perrin has several books on farming starting with <u>First Person Rural<\/u> that I&#8217;d like to read one of these days.  Most of the books seem to be out-of-print but are available used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noel Perrin, Dartmouth college professor and farmer, decides to switch from his gas-guzzling truck to an electric car for his daily commute. Not being inclined to convert a vehicle himself he turns to Solar Electric to buy a car. This book tells his story as he takes &#8220;Solo&#8221; across the country from California to Vermont. 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