Top 10 Reasons to Solar-Charge an EV!
10. You help drive solar – and EVs – forward!
9. No more trips to the gas station – ever!
8. Big long-term savings – and no more money to Big Oil!
7. “Drill, Baby, Drill!” crowd eats crow!
6. G-L-O-B-A-L W-A-R-M-I-N-G
5. Complete fuel independence!
4. Cleaner air – in your garage, in your neighborhood, in your city, everywhere!
3. A solar-charged EV is a true ZEV (zero emissions vehicle)!
2. The looks on neighbors’ faces when you tell them you power your car with sun…
1. Is there anything cooler than running your car off the sun?
evs & phevs
Electric vehicles (EVs) have been around a long time -- though plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are, comparatively speaking, a much more recent phenomenon. The ability to charge an EV's battery with energy produced by solar panels has also been around a long time. What hasn't been around yet is easy, and mass, access to EVs. That's about to change. In this section we offer an explanation of EVs and PHEVs and provide you with the basic tools that you need to establish whether an EV/PHEV is for you. As we note on our "What we are & are not" page, we don't purport to be car experts. We're just trying to help solar-charged driving go mainstream, and providing basic overview of EVs/PHEVs as well as EV and PHEV models, along with pointing you to other resources on EVs/PHEVs -- none of which focus on solar-charging EVs/PHEVs -- is one way we hope to accomplish this.
Overview: EVs on verge of re-making history
Thursday, 06 August 2009 00:00 | Written by Christof Demont-Heinrich, SCD.Com Editor |
  
 Thomas Edison next to a 1914 Detroit Electric Model 47. (Wikipedia.org photo) On a basic level, today’s EVs (electric vehicles) and PHEVs (plug-in hybrid electric vehicles) are nothing new. Battery powered vehicles resembling today’s modern automobiles have been around for more than one hundred years. In fact, before the dominance of internal combustion engines, electric automobiles held many vehicle land speed and distance records in the early 1900s. EVs were produced by Baker Electric, Columbia Electric, Detroit Electric, and others and, at one point in history, outsold gasoline-powered vehicles. Add a comment |
EV/PHEV resources
Tuesday, 04 August 2009 11:16 |
Below is a list of resources and web sites for EVs and PHEVs. SCD.Com is happy to consider additions to the list, which we will update, and expand, regularly. SCD.Com also welcomes invitations for reciprocal URL listing with relevant and related sites. Add a commentEV/PHEV guide
When available, as of November 2009 we are now embedding YouTube videos that offer an overview of each of the EVs/PHEVs listed in our guide There are low-speed electric vehicles available right now -- and they’re often much, much cheaper than the mainstream EVs/PHEVs, which are likely to cost at least $30,000. Of course, many of these low-speed EVs have a top speed of 25 mph. They are therefore practical only for very specific types of driving needs and contexts. A good source for a list of so-called “neighborhood” EVs is the Electric Auto Association. |
We offer you a list of URLs to web sites to various EV and PHEV autos which are either already in production or are scheduled to come into production and become available to consumers to purchase within the United States within the next two years. Mainstream means EVs and PHEVs capable of driving at regular highway speeds in the United States, meaning at least 70 mph.
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