In the spring of 1991 Noel Perrin flew from Vermont to California to pick up his newly outfitted electric car a former gas-guzzling Ford. It would not be easy but Perrin planned to drive Solo--as the car was soon dubbed--home a 3100-mile drive. Here is the picturesque story of the trip--from Solo''s struggle with gravity at Donner Pass to an encounter with a man with four electric cars in Rotterdam New York.