{"id":16439,"date":"2014-05-06T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T21:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=16439"},"modified":"2014-07-06T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T16:57:54","slug":"diy-solar-electric-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/diy-solar-electric-car\/","title":{"rendered":"The DIY Solar Electric Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building your own car is kind of the ultimate <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2013\/01\/pedal-powered-diy-projects-a-metaguide\/\">gearhead DIY project<\/a>&#8230; assuming you live in the developed world. If you don&#8217;t, it may well be the only option for owning a car of any kind. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s exactly what drove Nigerian student\u00a0Segun Oyeyiola to build a solar electric vehicle out of an old VW Bug, but I do know that it&#8217;s a pretty impressive feat&#8230; even if, as Gas 2.0 writer Jo Borras notes below, the care doesn&#8217;t travel very far.<\/p>\n<p>Know of other mechanical upcycling projects along these lines? Solarized motorcycles? Pick-up trucks? Share them with us in the comments&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpuEmbedCode\">\n<div class=\"rpuArticle rpuRepost-e37c2538f96f7f755042bb2bbc0a56c8-top\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/1.rp-api.com\/rjs\/repost-article.js?3\" data-cfasync=\"false\"><\/script><a class=\"rpuThumb\" href=\"http:\/\/s.tt\/27NPp\" rel=\"norewrite\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"\/\/img.1.rp-api.com\/thumb\/12613747\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a class=\"rpuTitle\" href=\"http:\/\/s.tt\/27NPp\" rel=\"norewrite\"><strong>Student in Nigeria Builds Solar Electric VW<\/strong><\/a> (via <a class=\"rpuHost\" href=\"http:\/\/s.tt\/27NPp\" rel=\"norewrite\">Gas 2.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"rpuSnip\">Segun Oyeyiola\u2019s parents were always telling him, \u201cyou better find something better to do. Your siblings have completed their first degrees and rather than you do some stupid things.\u201d Those \u201cstupid things\u201d, in Segun\u2019s case, included building\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- put the \"tease\", \"jump\" or \"more\" break here --><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpuEmbedCode\">\n<div class=\"rpuArticle rpuRepostMain rpuRepost-e37c2538f96f7f755042bb2bbc0a56c8-bottom\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><!-- How to customize this embed: http:\/\/www.repost.us\/article-preview\/hash\/ea0174974a5d38e80fe77c7e02c7b02b --><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think you could build your own car? 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