Back in the 90s, I carpooled with a friend who had a retrofitted Honda CRX. I remember the first time he picked me up in it, we rolled out of my driveway and th

Back in the 90s, I carpooled with a friend who had a retrofitted Honda CRX. I remember the first time he picked me up in it, we rolled out of my driveway and then started down the street and I was wondering when he‘d turn the engine on and stop relying on gravity to move the car (I used to use the same trick with my stick-shift Miata) and then I realized that he was, it’s just that the electric motor was silent. The other fun thing was watching the battery gauge fall as we went up the ramp on the 10-57 interchange in San Dimas. Being an early adopter, the commute from Claremont to Orange County was just within the range of his EV. He later went on to be one of the first lessees of the EV1 and was interviewed in Who Killed the Electric Car?