Electric Cars

An electric car is much more efficient for the kind of short trips I usually make. Certainly it would soothe my liberal tree-hugging conscience during all those times I'm too lazy to walk a few blocks to get to Raleigh Little Theater. Plus, electric cars are fun and quiet. So it is now my plan to get an interesting old car, preferably a Studebaker, and convert it to electric traction.

For lots of good information about Electric Vehicles, including rebuttals to most of your objections about EVs, visit the Electric Automobile Association's homepage. Or the web page I've built for the Triangle chapter of the EAA.

My Car

January 2001 I finally got my electric car. CP&L was ready to retire some EVs from its fleet, and donated the vehicles to the EV Challenge, which turned around and sold them for cash to support the program.

I put the high bid on "Killer Watt", a US Electricar Prizm that CP&L had decorated to advertise the Challenge. I intend to keep the stripes.

Specs:

Trophies

Pickedup a trophy at the EV Challenge. Second place in the "Open Class", in which electric vehicles not built by high-schools are allowed to run the autocross course. Of course, that's 2nd out of 3, and the 3rd place was a pickup truck, but what the heck, it's still a trophy.