I have to admit this thing is totally bad ass! One part electric scooter, one part solar winged speed demon, this little yellow scooter is charged by the power of the sun. If you want one of your own Don, the inventor, has been kind enough to provide instructions. This street legal scooter was build by Don Dunklee. The PV panels fold in for driving, and out for charging. Don rides the scooter 5 miles to work each day, and can fold the panels out for charging the battery while parked at work. He has traveled thousands of miles to work on this thing saving thousands of pounds of Co2 emissions. This sort of thing would be awesome for city commuting, especially if you had a nice sunny spot you could leave your scooter all day. I especially like that in the winter he plugs the panels into his home solar system to feed energy into his home.

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