If I were a rich conservationist I would buy a house with a whole bunch of land and line my land with solar, maybe over multiple properties and grid tie it. If its in an area with good net metering laws where you get paid at the rate that customers get charged(its this way in MN) and the electricity is very expensive(not too expensive here tho), you would be rich to buy the panels but then they would eventually pay themselves off and become an income source. Doing this on multiple properties spaced far apart would allow for a disaster like a tornado to come through and not wipe the panels all out.
...then just run the car from your solar panels. You could drive a Hummer or Escalade EV and not feel so bad about it because you generated that electricity and also the revenue that the solar panel companies got probably helped their R&D to develop better and cheaper panels to be sold to more people than would otherwise buy them.
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