Charging Ahead
Buck Joiner takes the wheel of one of his new electric Flybo autos outside his Maui Meadows home
Photo by AMANDA COWAN The Maui News
“Can a type-A personality find happiness at 25 miles an hour if the gas bill is zero?” asks Buck Joiner, about himself. He doesn’t know yet because the Division of Motor Vehicles is being sticky about titling his four — yes, count ’em, four — Chinese Flybo electric runabouts. But he’s hopeful. Joiner spent “hundreds and hundreds of hours” researching electric vehicles before lighting on the Flybo, and he’s pleased with what he’s got, although dealing with the county is enough to give him an infarction. When he finally gets his Flybo — marketing has got to do something about that name — onto South Kihei Road, Joiner will be about as insulated from petroleum prices as anybody on Maui. His house at Maui Meadows runs off photovoltaic electricity, and now his car can, too. In fact, if he gets a favorable response from the Public Utilities Commission, Joiner could be tooling around Kihei, at a sedate 25 mph, and making money off the fuel, although he’s only hoping t
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Kite Culture takes off at The Hui
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