electric cars

They had a bit on the news this evening about the advantages of owning an electric car and it does sound appealing - totally quiet and it doesn't need gas. My son has a hybrid. He has just driven it to Florida and I'll be curious to hear about his mileage when he gets back.  All you need to keep a total electric car running, so they say, is a place to plug it in, and there's the rub.  A proud electric car owner being interviewed explained that if you wanted to take an electric car on a long trip all you had to do was stop every couple of hours and charge it up. That sounded ok until I started wondering just where you would plug it in. I suppose you could just pull into someone's driveway and plug your extension cord into their outside outlet. Of course, if they came home while you were still charging, it might slow your getaway.  I realized as I thought about this that I'd better not rush out and buy an electric car any time soon since the only way I can think of to charge it up would be to drop a very long extension cord down from my 10th floor balcony to the parking lot below. I think not.