Elon Musk puts firecrackers under conventional thinking, like Brunel, Edison and other great innovators before him. One little appreciated and less reported aspect of the Musk onslaught is off grid. The decline in off grid electricity production as a percentage of all electricity production is being reversed and part of this is electric vehicle charging stations going off grid and many vehicles becoming their own charging stations from sun, wind etc. For instance, Elon Musk has said that all Tesla charging stations will go off grid using his solar panels, even including the newly announced global network of megachargers, probably punching a megawatt, that will power his giant Tesla Semi trucks worldwide. He also intends that all his vehicles have solar bodywork, Hanergy and others being ahead of him in launching solar cars. The static zero emission charging stations and the Energy Independent Electric Vehicles EIEV will need to make electricity from much more than photovoltaics but new forms of that will be key as well.Analyst IDTechEx has long predicted and tracked all and its new report, Off Grid Electric Vehicle Charging: Zero Emission 2018-2038 gives the full picture with a twenty year forward vision of the markets and technologies. This report is intended for utility companies, technology, vehicle and charging station developers, manufacturers and operators, town planners and other interested parties. The emphasis is analytical not evangelical. Consequently, although we appraise the many new forms of photovoltaics from that three times as efficient and flexible and/or transparent PV for windows of buildings that double as charging stations, we also look at complementary technologies coming along. For example, a solar road by the charging station can also capture movement using piezoelectrics or electrodynamics and vertical wind turbines down the centre of a road can harness wind from traffic. These are all development programs not just dreams but we throw in some dreams as well because this is a subject where dreams today become practicality tomorrow.The 130 page report Off Grid Electric Vehicle Charging: Zero Emission 2018-2038 was researched by the globetrotting PhD level analysts at IDTechEx who keep it up to date, It has an Executive Summary and Conclusions with forecasts, technology roadmaps and insights sufficient for those in a hurry, the many new infograms making it a fascinating, information-packed read. The zero emission off grid static charger market is forecasted for 2018-2038 split three ways and the EIEV market is also forecasted plus EVs themselves in 46 categories to 2028. Forecasts and technology roadmaps to 2050 put it in context with all off grid electricity production. The Introduction explains the emerging world of off grid, EV charging needs and power standards and the technology options. Chapter 3 reveals Off Grid Charging Stations in Action with a deliberately varied coverage from Tesla megachargers to PowerCube transportable extending solar and the new UK wind/solar evCentres for many vehicles at a time. Urban Wind Energy is covered in Chapter 4, with an assessment of the usefulness of the new Airborne Wind Energy Systems on sale 2018. Urban photovoltaic progress and strategy follows with Chapter 5 giving Building Integrated Photovoltaics in Action as charging and buildings increasingly integrate off grid. Electricity Generating Roads, Paths, Fences and Lamp Posts doubling as chargers is the subject of Chapter 6, with relevant Blue Energy covered in Chapter 7.