EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:
If you've been on the EVDL for a while, you probably remember reading posts by Roland Wiench... I'm sad to report that Roland passed away on the 16th of March this year.
I am deeply saddened to hear of Roland's passing. He was a real EV pioneer! I don't think I've ever run across anyone with more determination and will to succeed. I always wanted to get out to meet him in person, and see his beloved El Camino.
Roland was not a man to take halfway measures. He did things THOROUGHLY! I think he had more controls in his EV than the cockpit of a 747 jetliner, and more safety backup systems than a nuclear power plant.
If you needed to know how to solve a problem so it would never ever return again, he was the guy to talk to. He took the belt-and-suspenders approach to a whole new level. He was an absolute fountain of knowledge on the industrial-strength approach to things. We have indeed lost a priceless pioneer of EV history.
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