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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 11
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 11

by Mark Frauenfelder
August 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
190 pages
7h 38m
English
Make: Community
Content preview from Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 11

Rolling Solar

Turning a junker into a sun-charged electric vehicle.

By Ben Shedd

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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.

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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

WHILE JOHN WEBER WAS LIVING ON A sailboat in Mexico, it did not escape his notice that he got all his power from a ...

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