^ yes why not? it won't recharge the battery in any reasonable time, but the amount of time these guys are on the road may help some. Might as well extend charge time as much as possible seeing that these guys travel a bunch.
By the looks of the thing I'd say that the guys at smart designed it (if I didn't have the info about modec
) Even solar panels on the side wouldn't hurt (except for the part of putting UPS on the side and painting it brown :\)