I can install sufficient solar harvesting at home for most car use.
I can’t make my own gasoline, period.
Interesting point
BTW, since I once worked in Marketing, we heard rumors that Tesla Corp had identified a sub-market where they would buy EVs and plug them in to their landlords’ electrical outlets overnight for charging. Basically electric golf carts used for short distance commutes and trips.
So they developed a circuit similar to a Kill-a-Watt that could be bought aftermarket, installed onto the outlet with tamper proofing. In this way the landlords could still allow overnight recharging without getting ripped off and the drivers keep their vehicles.
It still hasn’t been rolled out,presumably because landlords haven’t caught on yet.
Which well cost you 10s of thousands of dollars.💸
> I can’t make my own gasoline, period.
True, gasoline is difficult to synthesize at less than an industrial scale.
However, isobutanol is fairly simple to create and purify via the ABE process, and works well as a drop-in replacement for gasoline in all modern automotive gasoline engines.
Someone with a small farm could make their own butanol to run their cars, but it would probably have problems with the fuel tax laws.