FROM DIAMONDS TO DUSTY CARS
With the ongoing drought, are dusty cars the new badge of honor?
"We first noticed it with a number of Nissan Leaf owners in the San Gabriel Valley. We also noticed it with an automotive journalist colleague’s own Fiat 500e. The common thread between both cars? They are pure electric vehicles. The 500e owner then clued us in: Since she never goes to a gas station, she never gets the car washed. And since her hometown of Monrovia (like many other towns in California) has banned the practice of washing cars with a free-flowing hose at home, her car gets dustier as the days go by..."
Full story: http://patch.com/california/monrovia/diamonds-dusty-cars-0
With the ongoing drought, are dusty cars the new badge of honor?
"We first noticed it with a number of Nissan Leaf owners in the San Gabriel Valley. We also noticed it with an automotive journalist colleague’s own Fiat 500e. The common thread between both cars? They are pure electric vehicles. The 500e owner then clued us in: Since she never goes to a gas station, she never gets the car washed. And since her hometown of Monrovia (like many other towns in California) has banned the practice of washing cars with a free-flowing hose at home, her car gets dustier as the days go by..."
Full story: http://patch.com/california/monrovia/diamonds-dusty-cars-0