Solar Powered Trike

This is a trike that has been modified with a brushless hub motor integrated into the front wheel. The solar panels charge the batteries so you never have to plug it in, as long as you leave it in a sunny location.
For more information:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Solar-Powered-Trike/

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Solar
• power
• green
• alternative
• energy
• fuel
• gas
• prices
• environment

[PandaVampires]

... Is that guy pedaling or is he just going for the ride? I cant tell.

[RusteeShackleford]

no pedaling

[FreeRunningHawaii]

How far does it usually go on a typical day's charge?

[TimpBizkit]

You could give the 'use your legs' argument to the millions of car drivers out there. Sometimes it's nice to have a form of transport with its own motor, otherwise cars and motorcycles wouldn't exist. This uses a lot less energy/mile than a car anyway. Besides you can still pedal this and it's nice to have a speed boost as sometimes all those hills can get a bit sweaty and sluggish, even if you're a pro racer. Funny thing is this is even more environmentally friendly than leg power lol.

[TimpBizkit]

One of the most environmentally friendly vehicles known to man, little to no reliance on fossil fuel burning from generating electricity. Only the energy cost to make it. No one said not to use the earth resources though - just not to squander them. You're even making me feel like a polluter on my CO2 exhaling fossil fuel burning food industry powered pedal bike lol.

[dmould66]

@ohiovr batteries prob only last that long-lol

[ohiovr]

This is really neet! I think a 23 second video doesn't do it justice though

[AlfistaWayne]

@Ambelghan. Wrong. IC gasoline engines produce CO2. Read up on it.  Study a little bit about combustion.

[davettalashley]

If you made some sort of roof over your head, you could put a bigger solar panel on it and take the one off your handlebars, perhaps?

[Ambelghan]

@KidEh1980

Will there be combinations of CO2? Yes, it is after the most stable form. All atomic species are allowed to exist if their constituents are present. That means in a sample of pure oxygen atoms you will find, some mono atomic oxygen, some diatomic and some triatomic. Entropy and various energies of the system will dictate which species predominates. The nature of the combustion engine predominates CO as the major exhaust of any quantity.

[KidEh1980]

@Ambelghan

You posted:

"cars do not produce CO2"

That is wrong.

When a hydrocarbon (e.g: gasoline) is burned, it releases water, carbon dioxide, and energy.

Cars absolutely do produce CO2. The greenies aren't off bases, you are.

[Ambelghan]

CO2 is dangerous in high quantities, in fact most substances are, "toxic," in high quantities, even water, even O2. What makes CO, an unnatural substance, especially toxic at low quantities is its ability to bind to hemoglobin, and cause a conformational change to the protein structure that neither allows it to bind to CO2 away from the lungs or release CO or pick up O2 at the lungs. Again its danger, environmentally and biologically come from not having a natural system for metabolism.