August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
190 pages
7h 38m
English
Turning a junker into a sun-charged electric vehicle.

Fig. A: John Weber’s solar car gets its charge from a $350 solar panel he picked up at Costco. He bought the motor, parts, and instructions from e-volks.com.

Fig. B: To run the motor, Weber uses eight 6-volt batteries, for a total of 48 volts. Three of the batteries (not shown here) are in the front engine space.
Photography by John Weber and Ben Shedd
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