Solar tuc tuc India to London (1 Viewer)

[tofo]

Took a while but hats off to him
Sorry if we have seen it before


I saw this on the BBC News App and thought you should see it:

Solar-powered tuk-tuk completes India to UK trip

Engineer Naveen Rabelli has completed a 6,000 mile journey from India to the UK in a solar-powered tuk-tuk.
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[DBK]

He landed a few days ago I think but well done him, it must have been a lonely and slow journey at times.

 

[Vlad The Impaler]

Hood up to hide his identity ,probably working illegally in a curry house near you !
Smarter than the rest of them I'll give him that ,



Vlad

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[mike mcglynn]

I Wonder how long it will be before he gets a load of parking tickets

 

[Bacchus]

Hats off to the guy, what a cracking adventure, and what a great sense of humour if you watch the interview.

 

[DBK]

So whose going to build the first solar powered MH? If one hasn't already been built of course.

Edit: on reflection one has been built - the one in the OP. But a back of an envelope calculation suggests you would struggle to get more than about 2Kw of power from a PV array on the roof of a typical MH, which is about 3 bhp, so blistering performance not expected. But it could work if you only drove for an hour or so a day and spent the rest of the time recharging the batteries. Done that way you could have a vehicle with say a 20 Kw motor (30 bhp approx) which is more practical if you had a very lightweight vehicle.

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[johnandi]

What an achievement, enough panels on there to keep going despite the weather!