DIY Solar charged electric scooter
From TreeHugger:
Don Dunklee's DIY Solar Cycle One of the questions that comes up most often when people ask me about the ForkenSwift is whether or not I could recharge it from solar panels, like this... http://i.treehugger.com/files/TH_bikermain_031905.jpg Quote:
So, as AndrewJ said: Quote:
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Did treehugger really just pick up this story? That thing is coooool.
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Do you mean is it a new TH story? It's from '05 actually.
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I love the way the solar panels fold out. It looks just like a space station with its solar sails raised.
A better way to charge would be to put big solar panels on your garage, and plug your vehicle into that. The only problem there is that the solar panels need to be where your vehicle is during the day. For most of us that means at a job somewhere. It would be a great way to do it for home businesses and at-home parents. |
Another potential problem: I can tell you that if he'd had those arrays deployed today in the winds we had (90+ km/h gusts), that little scooter would have ended up in a tree (or under one)!
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