Infinity Miles Per Gallon: Art Haines and the Solar Car

But above all.....I still think it's cool what he's doing.

I doubt Detroit CAN'T build it. When I look at it, I am actually quite glad Detroit WON'T build it. Side Impact Protection? Inflatable Restraint Systems? Tightening Seatbelts? Power Windows? A/C? LOL

Maybe this will be the new Chinese Hummer H4?  LOL

Oi, mate, the Chinese just bought HUMMER....

And some of you are right - we currently do not produce electricity in the cleanest ways possible. The sun and wind are free, and pretty darned clean. You're fighting HUGE money and corporate interests, though. In any event, we must move away from oil. It may sound trite, but it's true - If we kill the planet, we kill ourselves. There is no such thing as 'away' when it comes to CO2, toxic chemicals, etc. It won't go 'away'.

If you haven't seen the movie 'Who Killed The Electric Car', you really have to. The politics behind NOT giving people clean transportation technology will boggle your mind. We already have some genius engineers and inventors who made all kinds of wonderful clean things...only to be 'killed' by the oil and auto industries. Even alternative fuels are designed to FORCE you to go to a filling station.
I applaud this gentleman! I love this little car! BRAVO, Sir!

Obviously because he wanted to build his own- but that doesn't make it some advance in technology.

too fast for my taste

Not too fast, that thing's just unsafe at any speed

yeh but if they are good batteries they would last for ages, bout 5000 recharges but then they are only used to store the potential energy made from the solar pannels, so really, if the batteries die out cus of exhaustion, it wont matter cus you would be able to use them to use the car while its still daylight so yeh maybe like 98% harmless to the environment if you chuck the batteries away