This was fun to watch. In 2010 my wife bought a Tesla Roadster sport. So I bought a 914 Porsche and made a poor mans roadster. It had 34 lithium batteries, a 110v ac motor. A fun project but I burnt up the trans trying to shift gears. That Harbor Freight crimper was the best tool

So awesome to see the solarrolla couple on here.

I so want this. So many diesel campers are being taken off the road because of legislation so a camper is the perfect candidate for conversions with solar panels. Being sat in a natural setting for a few days while you recharge just from the sun is the dream of every vanlifer.

Hydrofoil a pontoon boat… interesting 🤔

I like your new bearded looks :-) I can't wait for solar vehicles to become a thing !!

Thank You for All that you are doing for our Planet Earth.... Peace.. Shalom.. Salam.. Namaste 🙏🏻 😊 ✌ ☮ ❤

Having owned several old busses one thing they don’t need is weight up high

nice and many thanks to you and solarolla

I traveled from Germany last year with a balcony solar package on the roof of my car (800 Watt & grid tie inverter - available on mainland Europe, criminally banned in UK) and set it up on my mum's roof. She now, because she is from the frugal generation and unplugs things at night, has a zero leccy bill! I literally 'solar powered my mum'! 🙂

Have you looked at the Stella Vita which is a solar camper ? It was designed by a group of students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. There are a number of videos of it on KZfaq. How about looking into the Bike Boat Camper --- BeTRITON (Z-TRITON 2.0)? It is also on KZfaq.

A nice usecase for future multijunction solar cells.

New esprinter has a range of 270 miles articulated array on one of these would be awesome. Aptera will be offering their solar cells for design and installation on whatever project you could build as a side business to their ev which could be a nice lightweight towable vehicle for rvs

@31:46, Starved Rock, Hey, I grew up there!

Like Jesy was saying, soon (when we hit the “age of abundance” and everyone has “universal high income”) we could people in every garage tinkering and making stuff ! 😀👌

You're either going to be encumbered by a gas station or encumbered by clouds and darkness. And this comes from a guy who lives FT in a motorhome with over 5,000 watts of solar that I designed and built myself - but I wouldn't rely on it as the sole source of propulsion. It's sort of like having a sailboat. When the wind stops so do you. It's really just a math problem. I have 8, 550w panels (4,400 watts) on my roof and a 620w liftable array on the side of my MH to charge 23.5kwh of batteries, but this just supplies my electrical needs for everyday living, not propulsion. If I had a 44ft motorhome I could fit 2 more 550w panels on the roof. If I did the same to each side to make 2 liftable arrays for a total of 30, 550-watt panels of 16.5 kw it still only put out 60-80kwh a day on avg. How far could say 70kwh a day propel a 35,000+ lb. motorhome? Then you would need at least twice that in batteries (roughly twice as much as a Tesla car has). And what kind of range would you get from this? The Tesla 18-wheeler Tractor is said to get 1.7kwh/mile, so let's say you get three times this as the RV would be much lighter. 70/1.7 x 3 = 123 miles/day recharge rate. You would have roughly a 250-mile range (if you had 150kwh in batteries batteries) for one day and then take 2 days of sitting with panels deployed to recharge what you use in a single 250-mile day - that is if the weather cooperated. You could add more batteries for more range, but it would be pointless as it would take too many days to recharge, making road trips impractical. This project would easily add another $100k to the cost of the motorhome. I think if solar panels got to 35-40% efficiency and the energy density of batteries doubled - but the cost of both dropped by half, it might be feasible at a future date, but I don't think consumers would accept the limitations of the concept just yet.

I love the solarrolla estars. I’m just curious about the real world range. According to data the new one has 5kWp of solar… The data I have is about 2,5kWh/kWp on an avarage day (numbers are from Germany). So that would be 12,5kWh a day… An electric vehicle like the E-Star got to use at last 25kWh/100km (62 miles)… so it would be about 50km (32miles) what is great, but for a road trip I’d need a minimum of doubling it… The claimed 200miles id love to see… not even in California with its sun… But I love the technics and love to see more. And I know from the route del sol E-star that solarrolla didn’t even tap into the dc Batterie direct, what would to my knowledge be more effective.. Also id love to see a rivian Van converted, with solar.

I hope they upgrade the brakes on their vw conversion. I have scary memories of driving in the Sierras and having the brakes getting so hot on the downhill that I could feel the heat coming off them in the drivers seat. If you added a few hundred pounds of panels and batteries it would be insane.

It would be nice to dream that one day there will be a solar car with a good range. There is no need for a charging station.

Have you read about pleated panels? I hear they're more efficient than flat ones over the course of a day.

articulating ie spelling out words, but try a solar powered airboat glider, with at least 16m^2 solar wing surface area, with high low weight lift, yep delta wing hang glider, instead of narrow wide wings, but those wide narrow wings would be easy to fold on top of the car, in segments. current commercial li-ion and lead-acid batteries cost too much.

The Solarrolla guys are so awesome, I hope they can build me a cybertruck solar camper one day :) Why it this on the Disruptive Investing channel though, are they raising investment?

Man, whatever happened to Route Del Sol? I think he totally gave up.

Talk about a coincidence. Aptera just announced doing solar powered panels for a local manufacturer of RV trailers. See today's APtera Owners Club video. BTW, I learned about Aptera because of you two. Thanks

7:44 Hmmm... don't believe that. Lets just say they could get that van down to 400 Wh/mi in efficiency. Your are telling me that this van has enough solar panels to grab 40 KWh a day? Aint no way mah boi. You aint got to lie to kick it.

the issue in most countries will be insuring the custom / modified vehicles

When nature fights back.

I have worked pretty hard to find the KZfaq channel for you guys But I couldn’t find it Could someone please post a link?

140w panel for $900 no thanks you keep pushing those to your celebrity market. I’ll stick with the market priced

The Aptera is full on vaporware. I reserved back in like 2016 and was promised a car by ~2019? I cancelled last year. It's never going to happen.

Stupid idea