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Good Morning! What a night again! While the day was actually quite nice, the night wasn´t. Shortly after midnight. a terrific thunderstorm rolled in again, followed by another antediluvian flood. It still is pouring down as I type this. Yuck! Mr. B. - I am aware of the range limitations, but that would not hurt us at all. A range of, say 80 to 100 miles would be more than sufficient. We use the car only to do our shopping and to get around our small town. The longest distance I drive is to my friend´s place and that´s a distance of less than 25 miles, but with a stretch of Autobahn to it, so a top speed of 80 to 85 mph is a must. I wouldn´t need any of those new fangled gadgets in it, not even A/C. I have the train station within walking distance. Whenever I have to go to Hamburg, taking the is the much cheaper option. The return ticket for Petra and me is less than the parking fee in Hamburg. Euro 24 buys me a ticket I can use to get to any station and back in my state, add Euro 2 to it and I can take Petra along [swg] We do need some kind of transport in our daily life and it needs to be a very basic and foremost cheap one. The electric cars available today are just to expensive to be a viable option. The little VW I have is also available as in all electric version, but it costs about twice as much as the version I have. Renault of France has an electric car which is a little cheaper, but you have to rent the battery, which costs more in a month than I ever have to pay for gas. The European car industry has no interest at all in marketing electric cars and they do their best to influence legislation. If you look into the world of electric mobility you will find that the companies which are way ahead in terms of technology are businesses with no background in car making. Makes me wonder about the future of the traditional automobile industry, especially of Volkswagen, Audi, BMW  and Benz, the management of which not yet having seen the writing on the wall. RickyW - a good manager and employer cares for his/her employees and apparently your boss belongs to those successful "old school" type of managers getting very rare to find these days. Lucky you! PM Railfan - we can "enjoy" this summer nighttime experience every year. No A/C and the mainline between Bremen and Hamburg within earshot. Thank goodness our trains are not as noisy as yours... TAFN
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