Solar charged electric cars are taking off in the United States.

1. Solar-charged vehicles: The future of driving

2. Solar-charged vehicles: The future of driving panel members
Christof Demont-Heinrich, Editor & Founder, SolarChargedDriving.Com
Jim Jenal, CEO, Run On Sun
Cary Hayes, Director of Business Development, REC Solar

3. Solar-charged vehicles: The future of driving
- What is solar-charged driving? How
does it work?
- History of solar-charged driving
- How many are doing it
- Who’s doing it & why
- What are they saying about it
- What does EV + PV mean for solar?
- What are some solar companies doing
on EV + PV front?
- Summary
- Future of solar-charged driving

4. Solar-charged driving: What is it & how does it work?

5. How much does it cost?

6. Solar-powered EV charging canopies

7. Maps of solar-powered EV charging canopies
Solar EV canopy goes up at Illinois Chevy dealer
Kyocera panels power German solar EV station
Solar EV charging stations on way for Minnesota
Georgia
to get
another
solar EV
charging
station
Car sharing company building 16 solar EV canopies
Nissan builds solar EV charging station at headquarters Bulgaria plugs into solar EV charging

8. Solar-charged driving: A short history
1980s: Handful of EV enthusiasts fuel custom-electrified
autos with home solar.
1997: Toyota RAV4 EV leased; significant % of RAV4 drivers
install solar. Limited media coverage of EV+PV (but dies out).
2008: Tesla Roadster becomes available; significant % of
Roadster owners install home solar PV to charge EV.
2008: EV + PV begins to make news media radar, although
barely.
2009: SolarChargedDriving.Com launched.
2009: News media coverage of EV + PV slowly rises; Roadster
availability, coming availability of Chevy Volt, Nissan LEAF +
growing number of solar EV stations inspires more coverage.
2010: Chevy Volt/Nissan LEAF become available late in year.
2011: Big automakers actively tap EV + PV (Ford, GM,
Mitsubishi, Nissan).
2011: Up to half of early EV adopters go solar.
2012: More EVs become available in U.S., cost of home solar
drops while gas prices push toward $4 to $5 per gallon – but
upfront costs of new EVs and solar continue to discourage
many from going EV + PV.

9. Who’s going EV + PV – and why?

10. How many
solar-charged drivers?
mynissanleaf.com
Up to half of early EV
adopters end up
installing home solar

11. EV owners like solar
Early Adopter EV Buyers either have solar or
are interested in solar electricity.
30% of Chevy Volt buyers already own home
solar systems
45% of Nissan Leaf owners plan to power
their car with solar
90% of EV buyers plan to charge their car at
home

12. EV owners like solar
• One in five Residential inquiries mention
EVs
– Over past six months
– Either presently owned or considering
• New Homes?
– Will this become the standard?
• Run on Sun moving more to Commercial
– Charging stations for employees

13. Solar-charged drivers: What they’re saying
After five years, ‘Sunco Station’ is now completely paid for by
offsetting our home utility cost and our gasoline costs. Essentially
the system, and a LED lighting retrofit, cost a little over $34,000 and
we have been saving a little over $7,000 a year in home utility and
gasoline cost . That's the new school. The old school was $430 a
month of electricity, $275 a month for gasoline.
-- Peder Norby, 7-year solar-charged driver, Calif.
“I just really hated oil. The advantages of EVs could easily sway a
person, but in my case, it was just a hatred for oil and what oil was
doing to the oceans . . . I’ve [also] always been a public interest kind
of guy. What’s good for humanity and society and the earth, I believe
in that. It’s that simple.”
-- Dr. Rob Wilder, 5-year solar-charged driver, Calif.
“You have a quicker pay-pack on a photovoltaic system if you are
using it to replace energy costs for a car, that equation also gets
better as utilities start paying people back for the energy rather than
turning the meter back to zero.”
-- Felix Kramer, long-time solar-charged driver, founder CalCars.Org
“The problem I see is selling people on going solar. It’s very rational
to equip one’s home with solar and, over the course of five or six
years, to amortize the full cost of that installation. But it’s still
intimidating to the majority of my neighbors to ante up eight to
10,000 dollars just to get in. For ourselves, though, we’re grinning
from ear to ear about the decision we’ve made.”
-- George Parrott, solar-charged driver, Nissan LEAF & Chevy Volt
Owner

14. Solar-charged drivers: What they’re saying
“Basically, there is finite supply of oil. We need to find ways of
substituting transportation fueling. Many people think the 1980s will
continue forever, that tomorrow will be just like yesterday. But that’s one
of the great delusions of our time.”
-- George Parrott, solar-charged driver, Nissan LEAF & Chevy Volt owner
“What I’ve found is that solar guys speak a different language from EV
guys. They’re from two different paradigms. I took these two disciplines –
solar and electric cars – and put them together. As simple as that sounds,
it’s not something many people have thought about.”
-- Paul Moore, long-time solar-charged driver, founder,
DrivingOnSunshine.Com
“A big part of it is, I think, seeing an example [of EV + PV]. A lot of times,
people can see or hear about it (in the media) and then they carry it
around in their heads without doing it. But when they actually see it in
person, that’s a stimulus that moves the idea from the back of the mind
to the front of the mind – and then maybe people actually start doing it.”
-- Phil Blackwood, long-time solar-charged driver, New Jersey
“EVs will definitely drive solar more than the other way around. For solar,
the economics change when you bring an EV into the mix. Instead of
having a seven-year payoff period, you’re now offsetting $3 per gallon,
and you have a five- or six-year payoff. EVs will definitely drive household
solar sales and, to some extent, commercial solar sales too.”
-- Paul Scott, long-time solar-charged driver & America’s first EV + PV
salesperson

15. (Future) solar-charged drivers: What they’re saying
The Future 
The future will be clean, no more pollution, goodbye petroleum, hello
sun energy!
Driving on Sunshine 
I'm driving on sunshine!
How's this for a sunroof!
This is what I do with sun. What can you do?
Got Sun?
Filler up...wit Sunshine!!
The sun never sets on a Tesla.
Next Fuel Station 93,000,000 Miles.
PV 2 EV 4 ME
Electric sunshade!
Free Sun Miles© for Life!
Environmental Benefits 
101% Sustainable
Completely green and totally clean! :]
0 emissions, 100% fun
Fueling Independence 
Free fuel, any other questions?
Freedom... What's in YOUR tank?
Goodbye Oil 
Solar>Oil
Oil lol.
Bend over OPEC.
Strait of Hormuz? They can keep it!
EV Parking Only - Fossils Will Be Towed.
No pipeline needed here!
Look ma, no oil!

16. PV Meets EV
What is REC Solar doing?
Offer residential charging stations to customers
Become known as an expert in the field of EV/PV
Increase revenue from new solar customers
New way to find solar customers through charging station installs
Additional revenue possibility for previous customer base
Understand EV rate schedules from utilities
Offer residential kit systems targeted to EV buyers/users
Designed to offset annual use of Leaf/Volt
Market to EV buyers
Develop partnerships with local car dealers
Offer a kick-back to dealers that send you customers
Offer to sell a system to the dealer

17. Solar-charged driving and the solar industry
3,000 - 4,000 kWh per year =
typical EV driver’s extra electricity use 
= 1.5 to 2.5 kW solar PV system

18. Summary
- Solar-charged driving around quite
awhile, only beginning to take off;
- People solar-charge for independence,
environmental & economic reasons;
- More & more people are solar-
charging EVs, but big upfront costs still
a barrier to many;
- Solar-charged driving represents
tremendous opportunity for solar
industry;

19. Solar-charged vehicles: What does the future hold?