Another week gone by

The car is a blast to drive. I scoot around now shifting all the time just like a normal stick shift car. It's pretty perky. Every time I get home I plug it in just to keep it topped off. This morning I went on another early Sunday morning drive on the freeway. I wanted to see what the top speed is but there were more cars today than before so I only got it up to 85.

Most recent pictures, taken when the car was charging this afternoon.

An early morning drive

Sunday morning. 7:30am. Nice day - I decided to get in the car and drive on the freeway. Where to go? I went to work and back, kind of a test commute. Too bad I take 4 kids to school in the mornings on the way to work - even when I put the back seat in, I'll only have seat belts for 3 passengers. And bug back seats just aren't that roomy in these days of 60-pound fifteen cubic foot backpacks - what's with kids and their stuff these days? Worse yet, no radio. They would lynch me.

Anyway I went to work and back on the 101. There was hardly any traffic so I got it up to 80mph no problem. There was more GO pedal left but I decided that a) I just finished building this car and maybe I forgot to tighten something and I didn't want to find out the hard way and b) I didn't want to risk a ticket just yet. Who knows what kind of reaction a police officer would have to an all-electric VW bug. He might tip off the DMV or something. Don't want to open that can of worms just yet.