I know the last post was off topic so to get back. I have been car free if you consider several years of not owning a car and using a motorcycle car free.

I started out in a car heavy family. From manufacturing to mechanic and sales. At one point we had six cars for 3 people. The thing that moved me to car light was not a battle with cars or people being able to have and drive their own personal transportation. It was with the ICE powered vehicles. Being a gear head at heart I once tried to build my own EV powered Corvair. Range, charge rate, and capacity were my down fall. For almost 30 years I looked for corporate America to come up with a replacement for ICE and city cars.

My hopes were raised when my state mandated in the zero emissions mandate in 1990 I got my hopes up even after every manufacturer said they could never do it but they might make a hybrid. CARB held to their guns and indeed towards 1998 GM, Ford and Toyota were about to offer full EVs for public consumption. Sure they were willing to exempt trucks and buses but we were going to get clean driving EVs like the EV-1, Toyota's EV Rav-4 and the little Ford that I saw commercials for but never saw one personally. Then Toyota and Honda came out with a hybrid around 1998 and CARB folded, GM pulled the EV-1 and they rated small gas powered cars as P-zero. A great disappointment.

I just oust about gave up think ICE was ever going to be replaced so I started looking to LSV vehicles like the GEM and moved from my resort home to where I am now. I soon re-discovered bicycles and knew the range was more than most LSVs so I gave up all but one car and a travel trailer and started cycling.

I am mo longer traveling like we did when I got the trailer so I sold the truck and trailer and got a small car that my bike fits in. I now drive fewer miles a year than I ride. So that in a nut shell is how I became car light.