inhabitat.com — Starting this coming spring, a slick new solar-powered electric vehicle will be hitting the streets of Europe. Italian car designer Pininfarina and French battery manufacturer Bolloré have officially announced that the five door Blue Car hatchback is now ready for production. A fully-electric vehicle with solar panels by 2010?
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b9gh47qJun 9, 2009
Dugg for Pininfarina
tetecJun 9, 2009
They talk about a price between 15000 € and 25000 € in the french press, but that's true, wait and see, nothing's official.
glassagateJun 9, 2009
Well, it looks like "Big Oil" is going to do what they canto encourage cloudy whether./s
fooljoeJun 9, 2009
Looks cool, but really solar panels on top of an EV are just a gimmick. There's no way such a small surface could provide enough power to drive more than a few miles a day. Just tell me some details about the battery, how much it costs, and when I can buy it.
fooljoeJun 9, 2009
this is still far from hitting the mainstream, and this is not soon. automakers made great, affordable EVs like the Toyota RAV4-EV 10 years ago, but then they just stopped. and no, we won't need any better charging infrastructure for a long time.there's enough excess off-peak production to charge a million EVs overnight with no strain whatsoever on the grid. also, many EV owners opt to install PV on their homes and so add to production. lastly, the gasoline displaced will also save electricity, as an EV can drive farther on the energy used to produce 1 gallon of gasoline than the average gas car can drive on that gallon.
glassagateJun 11, 2009
I bet they're plotting to destroy the Sun!/s