Editorials: October 2007 Archives

My vision for the future of personal transportation involves an at-home solar-charging electric vehicle.  The vehicle would be fully electric, running off of affordable lithium-based light-weight high-capacity high-discharge batteries.  The vehicle charges overnight in a garage or near a parking facility.  The charging facility (garage or otherwise) has a bank of much cheaper flooded lead-acid batteries in which it charges by means of a building exterior (roof and sides) made of high efficiency silicon solar and polymer solar skin.  This allows for as free of energy as possible, only costing the driver vehicle maintenance.