Solo: Life With an Electric Car

by Noel Perrin

The author describes how he drove his newly outfitted electric car from California to Vermont, and then put the car into daily service as a pollution-free commuter vehicle

Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir

191 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Noel Perrin was a professor of English literature, an essayist for the Washington Post, a hobbyist farmer, and a Korean War veteran.

Reviews

[Bob · Rating 3 out of 5]

While this presents some interesting history on electric cars (the book takes place in 1991 and Perrin offers anecdotes from the early 1900´s), the book worked for me more as a travelogue -- the trip could have been made on foot, horseback, or in a minivan and the author´s encounters would still have the same warm and comic appeal. I lost interest after page 140, when Solo made it to the author´s home and began his life as a commuter car.

[Dan Castrigano · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perrin is a Bill Bryson mashed together with a goofy and stubborn environmentalist. My kind of person / writer. He addressed many concerns that I have pondered in owning an electric car. So stoked to get ours! Easy to read. Witty and clever.

[Jeff Youngstrom]

My review from June 2, 1997