Comments on: Real data from my solar panels and electric car http://bikes-as-transportation.com/real-data-from-my-solar-panels-and-electric-car/ cargo bikes, family bikes, electric bikes and complete streets Fri, 17 May 2013 12:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Michael Heery http://bikes-as-transportation.com/real-data-from-my-solar-panels-and-electric-car/#comment-463 Michael Heery Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:13:00 +0000 http://bikes-as-transportation.com/?p=3089#comment-463 freat article, here in ireland,i am astonished that people are so conservative. i trying building a wind generator and showed to a few people who think i am mad,, i go kenya many times and try and tell them about solar, they think i am mad also. even if i do not make a profit its self development/hobby for me, then again i am different i went to iraq working/adventure in the 80s,thnks

]]> By: Dottie http://bikes-as-transportation.com/real-data-from-my-solar-panels-and-electric-car/#comment-419 Dottie Tue, 05 Jun 2012 03:26:00 +0000 http://bikes-as-transportation.com/?p=3089#comment-419 Interesting!  If I’m ever lucky enough to have my own house, I would definitely want to do solar panels.

]]> By: Shawn McCarty http://bikes-as-transportation.com/real-data-from-my-solar-panels-and-electric-car/#comment-417 Shawn McCarty Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:44:00 +0000 http://bikes-as-transportation.com/?p=3089#comment-417 I like your willingness to experiment and report back to us how things are in the real world.  And yet it feels like we as humans are trying so hard to cling to an old habit, driving around in massive boxes where most of the energy goes to pushing the box.    As you mentioned the cost is beyond the range of most of the world, and the embodied energy in the photo panels is another cost.

I agree that the electric bike is the future.It doesn’t make any more economic sense than your system, the math and payback is not  much different.  

Now my electric cargo bike is charged directly from the photovoltaic panels using a $100 MPPT charge controller.  I was running the PV panels to a charge controller,  then to batteries, then to an inverter, then to a converter/battery charger.   By figuring out how to use the PV panels more directly I charge my batteries much more efficiently  and quickly.  

Congrats on doing it, 

Shawn

]]> By: paul hyatt http://bikes-as-transportation.com/real-data-from-my-solar-panels-and-electric-car/#comment-415 paul hyatt Mon, 04 Jun 2012 04:14:00 +0000 http://bikes-as-transportation.com/?p=3089#comment-415 Thanks Don. I shared this article on Facebook.

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