I visited a physicist friend, who runs a growing business installing Hadron colliders solar photovoltaic panels and got to admire her recumbent. (And, the geeks go “Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge”.)
She expressed an interest in selling electric vehicles from her store front. Although solar energy is generally impractical for directly powering a vehicle, there is potential symbiosis. Photovolatic panels can offer low cost, solar trickle charging of those battery systems that are needed for traction applications. Furthermore, Professor Andy Frank (among others) advocates (and has successfully demonstrated) “ Collecting the Sun Today to run Your Plug-in Hybrid Tomorrow “.
There are e-bike markets in Asia and Europe. With rising gas prices, is there a potential market in North America?
In a related email correspondence, another friend asked, “What are the markets and customers?” My reply was that one might assume that the ...
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