Today I went looking at an electric car. It was a BMW i3 Range Extender edition. I liked it. My current car is on the way out. It’s a Subaru Outback and it has 210k miles on it, and recently it flunked the smog test and it would take a lot more than I want to spend to bring it back into the good graces of California. I can’t bear the thought of investing in an ICE car because I feel like it’s so backward and plus Greta says not to. On the other hand, where I live isn’t quite ready for the Electric Car Revolution. I can’t charge at my apartment complex; they installed the requisite devices but for reasons I cannot fathom won’t turn them on. And Oakland is kind of a dead zone for EV charging stations. So, I’m looking at cars which are primarily electric, but have a safety valve. And really there’s only 2 or 3 - the Chevy Volt, the Honda Clarity and the BMW i3 rEX. I like the i3 because it’s clever; it uses an emergency motorcycle engine to charge the battery when you really can’t find a place to charge. But it’s primarily electric and goes over 100 miles on a charge, unlike the Volt which is rated at about 50. It’s a cute little thing, I liked it. I think I may buy it. There are downsides; the gas tank is absurdly small which makes long trips kind of a bummer. Plus, when it runs off the gas engine it’s seriously underpowered, which means that going to Tahoe might be interesting. But hey, you have to make tradeoffs when you invest in the future, right?