This all-electric drive vehicle supplements its battery capacity with a silent fuel-burning microturbine. While this runs on diesel, turbines are capable of burning practically anything, meaning if cheap renewable methane natural gas proliferates, one could fuel a vehicle from home using the existing gasline infrastructure; and if it's feasible, one could even generate electricity at home when the vehicle is not in use--as means of supplementing the grid for a return on household electrical costs or DER. Combine this all with flow battery technology for renewable grid storage in a "cloud" situation, and let an onboard computer (AutoBUG, perhaps) determine whether it's more economic to burn gas for the grid or to simply store energy. This would make a great energy independence starter kit, requiring no new infrastructure for anyone to participate.
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