Businesswoman Converts 1993 Honda City Into Electric Car That Charges With Solar Panels

Written by Valdemar Medeiros

Published on 30/05/2022 at 13:06

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Entrepreneur Transforms Honda City 1993 Into An Electric Car That Can Be Recharged With Solar Panels. The Vehicle Offers A Range Of 120 Km And Generates Savings Of R$ 500 Per Week.

Rosemary Penwarden, businesswoman and environmental activist, transformed her 1993 Honda City into a homemade electric car that is recharged using solar panels. The project, including labor, cost approximately 24,000 New Zealand dollars, which directly converts to around R$ 74,000, half the price of a Renault Kwid e-Tech, the cheapest electric car in Brazil.

Electric Car Powered By Solar Panels

*Rosemary Penwarden says that while converting a car is not possible for everyone, she wanted to illustrate the possibility. Photo: provided by Rosemary Penwarden* – Image: *The Guardian/Reproduction*

According to the activist, you have to be a little crazy to convert a vehicle at home. The entrepreneur thanked oil companies for the motivation and stated that she has been driving her battery and solar panel-powered Honda City on the roads of the South Island, New Zealand, for three years.

With the help of her engineer friend, Hagen Bruggemann, the activist worked for 8 months on the electric car project. The entrepreneur purchased the body of a tow truck and personally removed the 1.3 gasoline engine from the Honda City.

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Honda City 1993 Electric Has A Range Of 120 Km

According to the entrepreneur, the homemade electric car, which is recharged by solar panels, is similar in size to the first-generation Nissan Leaf. Named Frida, the Honda City offers a range of 120 km on a single charge, which was enough for Penwarden to give up using a combustion vehicle.

This is because she used to spend up to US$ 100 a week commuting to work. Just being able to show that this can be done is amazing, and the most important thing, according to the activist, is to help stop one of the world’s biggest polluters as quickly as possible.

Currently, Penwarden runs a cooperative known as The Valley Workshop, in Dunedin, southern New Zealand. The activist wanted her company to become the center for electric car conversions in the country and claims that many vehicles have been converted, but it didn’t become the big thing she had in mind; however, she states that she will not give up.

Brazilian Transforms 2001 Celta Into Electric Car

Tiago Slaga, an automation technician from Paraná, converted a 2001 Chevrolet Celta into an electric car. So far, everything is normal, but the big difference is that the model is now powered by notebook batteries.

According to the creator, the idea came after watching similar conversion projects online. Thus, he decided to start some bench tests and checked the possibility of powering an industrial motor with batteries using a frequency inverter.

Currently, the owner has 455 notebook batteries and plans to expand to 500 units, equivalent to 3,000 cells for charging.

The batteries provide the Celta with a range of up to 100 km on a single charge. The industrial motor can deliver up to 12.5 horsepower to the vehicle, and the batteries take about 10 hours to charge from a residential outlet.

Source: The Guardian

Businesswoman Converts 1993 Honda City Into Electric Car That Charges With Solar Panels

Entrepreneur Transforms Honda City 1993 Into An Electric Car That Can Be Recharged With Solar Panels. The Vehicle Offers A Range Of 120 Km And Generates Savings Of R$ 500 Per Week.

Electric Car Powered By Solar Panels

Honda City 1993 Electric Has A Range Of 120 Km

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