Video: World’s first solar car (1960)
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at
2:12 pm
This is the world’s first solar car (1960) – powered by a ten thousand cell panel on the roof.
I love that the license plate reads: ‘California / Horseless Carriage / 2103′.
And this line: “It’s a significant point that every day as much energy falls on the earth from the sun as has been used in the whole history of our civilization!”
One of the men seen could be Dr Charles Escoffery, a scientist and pioneer in solar energy, who brought the car over from the United States.
Lookit the size of that walkie talkie!
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