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Solar-charged vehicles: The future of driving

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Christof Demont-Heinrich, Editor & Founder, SolarChargedDriving.Com

Solar-charged vehicles: The future of driving panel members

Cary Hayes, Director of Business Development, REC Solar

Jim Jenal, CEO, Run On Sun

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- What is solar-charged driving? How does it work?

- History of solar-charged driving - How many are doing it - Who’s doing it & why - What are they saying about it - What does EV + PV mean for solar? - What are some solar companies doing

on EV + PV front? - Summary - Future of solar-charged driving

Solar-charged vehicles: The future of driving

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Solar-charged driving: What is it & how does it work?

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How much does it cost?

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Maps of solar-powered EV charging canopies

Car sharing company building 16 solar EV canopies

Nissan builds solar EV charging station at headquarters

Solar EV charging stations on way for Minnesota

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Bulgaria plugs into solar EV charging

Georgia to get another solar EV charging station

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Solar-charged driving: A short history 1980s: Handful of EV enthusiasts fuel custom-electrified autos with home solar. 1997: Toyota RAV4 EV leased; significant % of RAV4 drivers install solar. Limited media coverage of EV+PV (but dies out). 2008: Tesla Roadster becomes available; significant % of Roadster owners install home solar PV to charge EV. 2008: EV + PV begins to make news media radar, although barely. 2009: SolarChargedDriving.Com launched. 2009: News media coverage of EV + PV slowly rises; Roadster availability, coming availability of Chevy Volt, Nissan LEAF + growing number of solar EV stations inspires more coverage. 2010: Chevy Volt/Nissan LEAF become available late in year. 2011: Big automakers actively tap EV + PV (Ford, GM, Mitsubishi, Nissan). 2011: Up to half of early EV adopters go solar. 2012: More EVs become available in U.S., cost of home solar drops while gas prices push toward $4 to $5 per gallon – but upfront costs of new EVs and solar continue to discourage many from going EV + PV.

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Who’s going EV + PV – and why?

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How many solar-charged drivers?

Up to half of early EV adopters end up

installing home solar

mynissanleaf.com

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EV owners like solar

Early Adopter EV Buyers either have solar or are interested in solar electricity.

30% of Chevy Volt buyers already own home solar systems 45% of Nissan Leaf owners plan to power their car with solar 90% of EV buyers plan to charge their car at home

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• One in five Residential inquiries mention EVs

– Over past six months

– Either presently owned or considering

• New Homes?

– Will this become the standard?

• Run on Sun moving more to Commercial

– Charging stations for employees

EV owners like solar

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Solar-charged drivers: What they’re saying After five years, ‘Sunco Station’ is now completely paid for by offsetting our home utility cost and our gasoline costs. Essentially the system, and a LED lighting retrofit, cost a little over $34,000 and we have been saving a little over $7,000 a year in home utility and gasoline cost . That's the new school. The old school was $430 a month of electricity, $275 a month for gasoline. -- Peder Norby, 7-year solar-charged driver, Calif. “I just really hated oil. The advantages of EVs could easily sway a person, but in my case, it was just a hatred for oil and what oil was doing to the oceans . . . I’ve [also] always been a public interest kind of guy. What’s good for humanity and society and the earth, I believe in that. It’s that simple.” -- Dr. Rob Wilder, 5-year solar-charged driver, Calif. “You have a quicker pay-pack on a photovoltaic system if you are using it to replace energy costs for a car, that equation also gets better as utilities start paying people back for the energy rather than turning the meter back to zero.” -- Felix Kramer, long-time solar-charged driver, founder CalCars.Org “The problem I see is selling people on going solar. It’s very rational to equip one’s home with solar and, over the course of five or six years, to amortize the full cost of that installation. But it’s still intimidating to the majority of my neighbors to ante up eight to 10,000 dollars just to get in. For ourselves, though, we’re grinning from ear to ear about the decision we’ve made.” -- George Parrott, solar-charged driver, Nissan LEAF & Chevy Volt Owner

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“Basically, there is finite supply of oil. We need to find ways of substituting transportation fueling. Many people think the 1980s will continue forever, that tomorrow will be just like yesterday. But that’s one of the great delusions of our time.” -- George Parrott, solar-charged driver, Nissan LEAF & Chevy Volt owner “What I’ve found is that solar guys speak a different language from EV guys. They’re from two different paradigms. I took these two disciplines – solar and electric cars – and put them together. As simple as that sounds, it’s not something many people have thought about.” -- Paul Moore, long-time solar-charged driver, founder, DrivingOnSunshine.Com “A big part of it is, I think, seeing an example [of EV + PV]. A lot of times, people can see or hear about it (in the media) and then they carry it around in their heads without doing it. But when they actually see it in person, that’s a stimulus that moves the idea from the back of the mind to the front of the mind – and then maybe people actually start doing it.” -- Phil Blackwood, long-time solar-charged driver, New Jersey “EVs will definitely drive solar more than the other way around. For solar, the economics change when you bring an EV into the mix. Instead of having a seven-year payoff period, you’re now offsetting $3 per gallon, and you have a five- or six-year payoff. EVs will definitely drive household solar sales and, to some extent, commercial solar sales too.” -- Paul Scott, long-time solar-charged driver & America’s first EV + PV salesperson

Solar-charged drivers: What they’re saying

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(Future) solar-charged drivers: What they’re saying The Future The future will be clean, no more pollution, goodbye petroleum, hello sun energy! Driving on Sunshine I'm driving on sunshine! How's this for a sunroof! This is what I do with sun. What can you do? Got Sun? Filler up...wit Sunshine!! The sun never sets on a Tesla. Next Fuel Station 93,000,000 Miles. PV 2 EV 4 ME Electric sunshade! Free Sun Miles© for Life! Environmental Benefits 101% Sustainable Completely green and totally clean! :] 0 emissions, 100% fun Fueling Independence Free fuel, any other questions? Freedom... What's in YOUR tank? Goodbye Oil Solar>Oil Oil lol. Bend over OPEC. Strait of Hormuz? They can keep it! EV Parking Only - Fossils Will Be Towed. No pipeline needed here! Look ma, no oil!

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What is REC Solar doing?

PV Meets EV

Offer residential charging stations to customers Become known as an expert in the field of EV/PV Increase revenue from new solar customers New way to find solar customers through charging station installs Additional revenue possibility for previous customer base Understand EV rate schedules from utilities

Offer residential kit systems targeted to EV buyers/users

Designed to offset annual use of Leaf/Volt Market to EV buyers

Develop partnerships with local car dealers

Offer a kick-back to dealers that send you customers Offer to sell a system to the dealer

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Solar-charged driving and the solar industry

3,000 - 4,000 kWh per year = typical EV driver’s extra electricity use = 1.5 to 2.5 kW solar PV system

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Summary - Solar-charged driving around quite

awhile, only beginning to take off; - People solar-charge for independence,

environmental & economic reasons; - More & more people are solar-

charging EVs, but big upfront costs still a barrier to many;

- Solar-charged driving represents tremendous opportunity for solar industry;

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Solar-charged vehicles: What does the future hold?