Save Household Energy Blog » solar energy http://savehouseholdenergy.com/energy Saving Energy in Your Household and Developments in Alternative Energy Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:47:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Solar Car! http://savehouseholdenergy.com/energy/going-solar/solar-car/ http://savehouseholdenergy.com/energy/going-solar/solar-car/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 11:18:00 +0000 Mike http://www.savehouseholdenergy.com/energy/?p=21 Is this a car or a spaceship? Actually, it is a car . . . and completely powered by the sun!

This solar car, designed and built by Marcelo da Luz, will go 0-50 in 6 seconds and has a top speed of 75 mph. Marcelo drove this car a record 13,000 miles, including travel up to the Arctic Circle in low light conditions. This solar car can even go 130 miles at night if its batteries are fully charged. Very nice!

And yes, his car has been mistaken as a highway-bound UFO many times. da Luz states that he has been pulled over by highway patrolmen about 15 times and in one case he was reported to law enforcement as a “UFO driving down the highway”.

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