I met someone at the Bitcoin meetups who was buying used volts and fixing them up. Every meetup they would talk about all the features of the car that made it stand apart from other electric hybrids. The Bitcoin price was also ripping at the time and had recently broke 100k for the first time. I had been driving a lot more too, attending a Bitcoin meetup a week, sometimes two in a week. Most of the time the meetups were over an hour drive from the homestead. I was burning up as many sats in fuel as I could earn at a meetup a lot of times. Once I realized turning the solar power production into miles on the road would net me more Bitcoin in the end with the fuel savings vs using that power to mine, it was time to make the purchase. Getting an electric vehicle at the beginning of winter offered an underwhelming experience to start. The vehicles electric range was greatly reduced by the cold and I hardly had any solar power to charge it. As the days got longer and warmer the electric range drastically increased to the point where I can do most local trips without burning any gas.
