Off the Grid (eBook)

My Ride from Louisiana to the Panama Canal in an Electric Car

Randy Denmon (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
248 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-1740-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The rollicking tale of a first-of-its-kind adventuredriving a Tesla through Central America.Only a week after the nations newspapers were filled with headlines of the first cross-country trip in an electric car, two Louisianans slip quietly across the Rio Grande in south Texas in an attempt to do the unthinkabledrive a factory electric car across seven Third World countries to the end of the road, Panama City, Panama.Without support and armed only with a toolbox, a bag of electrical adapters, and their wits, author Randy Denmon and his friend Dean trudge on through jungles, deserts, volcanoes, rivers, and crater-sized potholes, all the while trying to avoid the drug cartels and corrupt border guards that could mean a quick end to their adventure . . . and their lives. Through it all, the same enormous problem loomed daily: how to charge the car in such a primitive and desolate setting?Despite the numerous setbacks, Randy never lost his sense of humor. Off the Grid is as much a spiritual journey as a physical one about two guys who dropped everything for one grand twenty-first-century adventuretraveling back in time in a car that seemed to come from the future.

Autor

Randy Denmon is a writer and engineer. His novels have been reviewed in numerous papers and magazines and have won the Western Writers of America Spur Award and the Faulkner-Wisdom Award. A lifelong Louisiana resident, he currently resides in Monroe, Louisiana.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.2017
• Vorwort: Jim Motavalli
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Schlagworte: 1993 • Auto • Automobile • Automotive Industry • batteries • books on automobiles • books on automotive industries • books on brant books on conversion processes • books on businesses • books on carbs • books on chasses • books on combustion engines • books on cons • books on conversions • books on durant • books on electics • books on electric cars • books on electrics • books on electric vehicles • books on gasolines • books on government fundings • books on government regulations • books on hobbyists • books on internal combustions • books on mazda • books on motors books on californi • books on plugs • books on policies • books on pros • books on sectors • Brant • Businesses • californias • Carb • chassis • combustion engine • Commuting • cons • conversion process • Conversions • Convert • converted • Converters • converting • Durant • electic • electric cars • Electrics • Electric Vehicles • environmental • Gasoline • Government funding • Government Regulations • Hobbyists • internal combustion • Levi • Mazda • Motor • Nissan LEAF • Panama • pickup truck • Plug • Policy • pros • Regulators • Sector • suppliers
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-1740-4 / 1510717404
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-1740-4 / 9781510717404