Off the Grid - Randy Denmon

Off the Grid

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

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
2017
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-1739-8 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
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The rollicking tale of a first-of-its-kind adventure—driving a Tesla through Central America.

Only a week after the nation’s 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 unthinkable—drive 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 adventure—traveling back in time in a car that seemed to come from the future.

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. Jim Motavalli is the author of two books on electric cars, Forward Drive and High Voltage; cofounder of FuelCellCars.com; and blogger for Car Talk at National Public Radio.

Erscheinungsdatum
Vorwort Jim Motavalli
Zusatzinfo 35 B&W photos
Verlagsort New York, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 479 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Reisen Reiseberichte Nord- / Mittelamerika
Reisen Reiseführer Nord- / Mittelamerika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 1-5107-1739-0 / 1510717390
ISBN-13 978-1-5107-1739-8 / 9781510717398
Zustand Neuware
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