Green Wheels: Solar Power

http://voom.tv/equatorhd/greenwheels
Grab your sunscreen, because on this episode everything's powered by the sun. We'll meet "solar guru" Steve Heckeroth. Not only is his homestead 100% solar-powered, so are his vehicles. He designs and builds electric tractors, and he charges
them, along with his Toyota Rav4-EV, with free energy from the sun. We'll also check in with the Stanford Solar Car Project team and their UV-powered car -- Solstice. Covered with solar panels and stocked full of lithium ion batteries, this car looks like a UFO and can drive across the country without ever stopping to fill up!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Jonathan
• Levit
• green
• wheels
• solar
• power
• panels
• electricity
• alternative
• car
• fuel
• eco
• gas
• oil
• battery

[immigranter]

Now THIS is saving the envoronment! Not that shitty stuff given out by the oil companies!

[12643]

damn. Must be one hell of a battery to get 66 miles on full charge when the battery itself in the car wieghs 800 pounds. They should not be allowed to keep this technology in darkness, its so wrong, they must be a-holes!!

[METALMAN4Wii]

How'd does he have that EV Toyota they were all destroyed in 06 ? if you don't believe me watch "Who Killed The Electric Car" it's on Youtube....!

[purpleGoAhead]

@12643 he doesn't say 66 miles per charge, but the (800-pound) battery has 66000 miles on it without any maintenance...

[S0RREN]

@immigranter See. Problem it self is not in electricity, it is in dead pure and almost ideal energy. but we dont have pure way to create and more iportantly, pure and effective way to store it. Thats Why I think, that all these electricity-car-junk-videos are just greenpeace nonsense.

[immigranter]

Okay, I'll give you that. So IC engines what use Hydrogen? Technically that is the perfect idea. but i do have some concerns. One time I was in a chat board where there was a discussion about this very subject, they raised the question that burning hydrogen in an IC engine could create rust over time. So what one person did his made his car 97% hydrogen powered and 3% gas, just to prevent rusting.

And yes fuel cells can create electricity from hydrogen and oxygen in which case rust is no problem

[S0RREN]

@immigranter Once again... Wrong. Electric enegry is not as clear as you may thing. I wrote that solar panels are not ekological to craft. and it makes so little electrical power, combined with lauzy battery effectivity. it almost as bad as oil/diesel engine. only possible step to eko-future is hydrogen. Not this elektro-junk.

[immigranter]

It's a one-time cost. IC engines need oil to run and to lubricate all it's moving parts. Yes, electric motors also use oil in like the ball bearings and in the manufacturing process, but electricity can be generated from sunlight or wind. Certain kinds of batteries need nickel, and mining it creates acid rain. And there are other factors. One thing is for certain: this is a self-sustaining system. (and again yes, the batteries get old parts wear out, still it is better.)

[S0RREN]

@immigranter you really think so? do you know how much ekological is to make one of those solar panels? do you know how ekological are those batteries? do you at least realize that this car is made from plastics that is also made of oil? and those tuns of steel and copper they need... all this stuff may be useful one day, but it is still far away from beeing "ekological"

[sunnydale22]

very cool :)

you almost wish that people HAD to have environmentally healthy cars, eh

[MrEnergyCzar]

This guy gets it....