Michigan man hacks scooter to run on PV panels; makes 20-mile round trip regularly

Don Dunklee of Davison, Michigan has tricked out his scooter so it runs on PV panels.  Looks like   – unfolded – the scooter takes up a space about as wide as a typical automobile parking space.

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Apparently his children – three, late teens and early twenties – are embarassed to be seen with him.  We wonder if they’re also embarassed to take gas money from him.

 Via Wired Blog.      Here’s Dunklee’s how-to.