{"id":3627,"date":"2008-04-09T11:13:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T17:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3627"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:38:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:38:12","slug":"going-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/going-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Going green"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found several examples of folks getting creative with green energy sources for transportation today (mostly thanks to the MAKE blog<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Andrew, a 17 year old in Michigan has already constructing two EV (electric vehicle) cars<\/a>.
\nHe’s converted a 1988 Mazda B2200<\/a> to electric, as well as his current project, a 1992 Toyota Tercel<\/a>. He get a top speed of 55 mph out of the Mazda and can get around 40 miles out of a charge. He’s hoping to get closer to 80 mph on the Tercel. You can read more about the projects on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SUNN<\/p>\n

Another cool project is the SUNN vehicle<\/a> that was designed and built a guy and several high school students in Maine as a hobby project but is now also available through the SUNN Solar Electric Kit. The car can be charged with solar panels or being plugged in directly to a wall and gets an average of 20 miles per charge. The top speed is 20-25 mph. There’s even a cool 14 min video on YouTube<\/span> showing the car in action during the day and at night.<\/p>\n

Finally, there’s the steam powered micro-car and<\/a> motorbike (moped)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also read last week about a community that told their 15 year olds they couldn’t get a driver’s license until they were able to create a vehicle that runs on something other than oil\/gas based products. So they built a pickup truck that runs on burning mesquite wood.<\/p>\n

I wonder, if we keep putting our heads together like this, what will we discover in the next 5 years? What if the next big thing in transportation is steam powered vehicles, or maybe a waste powered vehicle? What waste product can you think of would be better suited for powering the vehicles of the future?<\/p>\n

Whether is for environmental or economical reasons, I think we’re all beginning to agree, something must be done to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Found several examples of folks getting creative with green energy sources for transportation today (mostly thanks to the MAKE blog). Andrew, a 17 year old in Michigan has already constructing two EV (electric vehicle) cars. He’s converted a 1988 Mazda B2200 to electric, as well as his current project, a 1992 Toyota Tercel. He get … Continue reading Going green<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,12,24],"tags":[964,963,965,962,967,966,608],"class_list":["post-3627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-take-action","category-techno","category-treehugging","tag-electric","tag-ev","tag-power","tag-steam","tag-transportation","tag-vehicles","tag-waste"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Wv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11072,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions\/11072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}