As San Diegan's we appreciate our clean environment and we strive to do more. As a San Diego native, the hazy brown skies and pollution of the 70’s and 80’s mostly caused by our larger neighbor to the north, LA, and our love affair with the gasoline powered car, left an indelible stain of wrongness on my memory. With every breath I took, I was polluting my lungs and my body with the always present smog. Many San Diegan's and I (many Californian's too) have a lifelong desire to clean our environment for now and for future generations of San Diegan's. It’s fashionable and easy to beat up o ..read more

Individualism in shared mobility; They can coexist and it’s about time… Recently, the most colorful bikes I’ve ever seen have bloomed like flowers in the worlds densest cities including in my city, San Diego. Millions of colorful urban flowers planted in soils of asphalt…all a fantastic color, however all the same generic hue.  The post-bloom unfortunately has been an unsustainable apocalyptic hell of discarded industrial bikes for San Diego and other cities to deal with.  We must do better.   A dead flower enriches and nourishes the soil onto which it falls. Let's lea ..read more

It's about the economy and the emissions.  My Fuel Station, 14 cents for regular, 9 cents for TOU. 1.   The cost to power our two BMW i3's by solar is the equivalent of $0.14 per gallon of gas. 2.   The GHG's caused by our collective transportation choices are the largest source of emissions in California. 3.   In California, there are over 500,000 solar PV installations and 50% of all EV's and PHEV's sold. 4.   The emissions reduction of driving an electric car powered by solar energy (solar used as a transportation fuel) is 400% greater than th ..read more

Lightweight, electric vehicles for the city…Part one of two Relocalization:  The opposite of urban sprawl.  Arcimoto:   The evolution of transportation. Arcimoto SRK Heretofore, no machine has been better as a conduit connecting us to our relationships than the personal automobile. It’s why we willingly turn over 50% of our land surface in large urban cities to asphalt and concrete in the service of cars, it’s why we spend a large chunk of our personal and civic income on cars and their required infrastructure as the basis of our transportation network.  ..read more

In 2009, I was fortunate enough to become a field trial driver of pre-production electric prototypes; first the BMW Mini-E followed the BMW ActiveE. I drove both for five years in an effort to understand where we were going as we transitioned to the future of electric transportation. Heady...but uncertain days in 2009 with the BMW Mini-E 2016…. Enter the Arcimoto SRK. Heading to my County of San Diego Planning Commission Meeting. Do you ride or drive the Arcimoto? Tough question to answer, I’ll go with ride.  Riding the SRK these past few days, brought me ment ..read more

We're liking the Arcimoto SRK, come join us for a test drive :)  Arcimoto SRK, Fun open, practical electric mobility A bit of history, Julie and I are proud to be among the early EV Pioneers ushering in electric mobility. We began in 2007 with Solar PV and in 2009 as Field Trial drivers with BMW in the pre-production prototypes, the BMW MINI-E & the BMW ActiveE, both very important vehicles in the development of the BMW i3 and BMW i8, all driving on electricity produced by harvested sunshine. We are continuing in that electrifying pioneer spirit with our exploration o ..read more

A needed disclaimer, I'm an i8 driver and an i3 driver. So bias detection is allowed by the reader.  Car doors are typically generic & mundane, but doors can be so very "aufregend!" With the BMW i3, BMW i8 and the Tesla Model X, doors can be downright friggin amazing! Gizmos, gadgets, carbon fiber and lightness. Tesla Model X Let me be "Captain Super Obvious" here and point out that an engineering overdose, and an engineering reboot  was required to provide for the Tesla Falcon doors. Tesla can rightly lay claim to the most incredible structure ever required to get the d ..read more

It's just 30 ft.  from the panels to the EV plug.  We've arrived at zero net cost (-$472 actual) for the energy required to live in our home and drive our two electric BMW i3’s powered by Solar PV. The utility savings from our Solar PV system installed in 2007 and the gasoline savings from our EV driving beginning in 2009 with the BMW Mini-E, led to our energy plant / Solar PV system being fully paid off in April of 2012.  For our family, we have an ongoing savings of around $8000 a year continuing for the next few decades.  But there’s another side of the sto ..read more

You can live and drive powered by sunshine. Julie and I are fortunate enough to both own and drive BMW i3 Bev's powered by sunshine. Our BMW i3's are the principal reason along with Solar PV and a very efficient home, that we are able to live and drive with zero net utility or gasoline cost. The BMW i3 is rated by the EPA at 177.7 combined mpg rating (using unadjusted laboratory figures) according the article, an unbelievable 5 times more efficient than the the average new gasoline vehicle which is rated using the same methodology at 31mpg unadjusted.  (Source NPR) That ..read more

You can choose to not contribute your money to wars and terrorism funded by proceeds from oil. It just takes a little sunshine ..read more