Solar-E-Cycle

Solar-E-Cycles creates simple and inexpensive solar powered vehicles that serve both as transportation devices and off-grid sources of electricity to provide economic empowerment to people earning less than $2 a day in developing countries. The mobility/power combination provides entry-level cost-free practical day-to-day transportation for developing country families/communities; and all the benefits of home powered photovoltaic systems for supporting economic and educational activities. Consider a fuel-free, low cost, reliable, easy to maintain, transportation device for 2-3 people made from off-the-shelf readily available components that has a 40 year useful life-expectancy, can travel 50km/day and in the evening runs lights, powers TV/radio, pumps water, recharges phones...