Solar cart history:
Year 2003, COLLINDA LIMITED - UK DEVELOPER
During 2000 another British company, Collinda Limited,
developed the solar powered rickshaw seen below. Eventually,
this project won the Eurosolar transport award in 2000 and the
vehicle appeared on the BBC programme Tomorrows World.
To help create the demand and continue with research Collinda
were to cooperate with sponsors Royal Rajasthan, for a Solar Rally,
of which we have not heard any update as we write this article.
Sunday, January 05, 2003
During testing between and Udaipur in Rajasthan the Collinda
vehicle was filmed by 5 Asian TV channels and an interview with
the Rajasthan Minister of Energy was shown to an audience
estimated between 10m and 30m people. India is ready for such
a vehicle which has acceleration much better than a cycle
rickshaw and equivalent to an auto rickshaw. Top speed recorded
was 40 kph and at the normal road speed in cities of 20 kph,
400 Watts was needed which was far less than the power
from the BP solar panels of 850 Watts.
http://www.speedace.info/solar_powered_rickshaw.htm
Year 2003, THE TRIBUNE - Wednesday, August 11, Chandigarh, India
Syed Sajjad Ahmed displays “the electro-solar car (cart)”,
a battery-operated solar-powered cart for city mobility that
he has developed in Bangalore. The cart can run 60 km with
solar support, is eco-friendly and the first of its kind.
Year 2006, YAMAHA'S ELECTRIC RICKSHAW PEDALS INTO VIEW
It goes where no other taxies are allowed
Most of the UK’s major cities have gone rickshaw crazy,
so could we see this elegant three-wheeler on our streets
any time soon?
What, you act like you’ve never seen a high-tech rickshaw before!
Actually, this is really one of the silliest things we’ve ever seen—
Yamaha or not— given that it’s got an electric engine as well as
a pedal-pushing cabbie. Why not just eliminate the pedals, eh?
Perhaps because then it would be considered a “taxi”, and wouldn’t
be allowed into Tokyo’s World Expo area next year. Crazy…
like a fox.
Year 2007, introSolar Powered Trike
Travel for free with the power of the sun!
How to build a Solar Powered Trike
The purpose of this project is to build a vehicle that:
-Provides free, 'green' transportation for short distances (<10 miles),
thus it must never
plug into a wall socket, or emit any pollutants.
-Charge while at work
-Is cheap, simple, and low maintenance.
-Draws attention to the practical application of green energies,
and promotes Fossil Fuel alternatives.
-Reduces excess automobile wear and pollution from cold driving /
short, in town trips.
-Gets me an A, since it is a project for Dr. Reza Toosi's 'Energy and the
Environment, a global perspective' class at California State University,
Long Beach. We look at the sources, technologies, and impacts of
energy on our environment.
link to other class projects, some of Dr. Toosi's ENG-302i lectures,
and other interesting videos.
http://www.csulb.edu/~rtoossi/engr302i
This a news interview of a solarpower bike...solar bike
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WIKE Wicycle Electric Car
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