Even the loudest, most obnoxious proponents of fossil fuels as the answer to powering modern industrial society are forced to concede one thing:

Eventually, the supply of oil -- and natural gas, coal, and so on, will run out.

Yes, there is debate – significant debate – about when, for instance, oil, which is obviously the key to the current auto-motive economy – will run out.

An EV frees you from trips to the gas station. You will never again share gas fumes with others at a self-serve gas station near you.

Let’s repeat that, because it is a very radical concept – one that surely has Big Oil quaking in its boots, or at least those Big Oil companies who haven’t had sufficient foresight to diversify their energy discovery and production approach and move, big time, into renewables: With an EV, you will never, ever visit a gas station again. Never.

There’s no disputing that running an EV or PHEV fully, or partially on the sun, is far more environmentally friendly than using gasoline.

First, in contrast to gasoline, the sun is a clean, direct, renewable form of energy. And you generate sun fuel for your EV and/or PHEV locally. Sun doesn’t have to travel thousands of miles from war-torn countries like Iraq to power your car.

The electric car + renewable energy mix holds tremendous appeal.

One of the most common responses to solar-charged driving and, more generally, to the renewable energy + electric car combo, is that it can’t be done.

If you spend any time trolling the Internet for news coverage of electric vehicles and/or renewable energy, you see this criticism, in slightly different variations, again and again.

It’s too expensive. It’s inefficient. It’s not realistic. It’s pie-in-the sky. It will never happen.

Let’s deconstruct each of these faulty criticisms one by one.

Assuming you have an EV and/or PHEV, there are countless reasons to solar-charge your car(s). Cleaner air, complete individual fuel independence, and greater national fuel independence are just a few of the specific reasons to run your car on the sun.

Basically, the reasons to solar-charge your car fall into four broad categories:

1. Environmental reasons to solar-charge your car
2. Independence reasons to solar-charge your car
   
3. Energy conservation reasons to solar-charge your car
   
4. Political reasons to solar-charge your car