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Solar Powered Shrub Car is Not Your “Garden Variety” EV

by , 06/09/10

sustainable design, green design, terrestrial shrub rover, solar power, solar energy, electric vehicle

If you’re going to drive around in a solar-powered vehicle, you might as well make it a snazzy one. Enter the Terrestrial Shrub Rover, a solar-powered vehicle that looks, as you may have guessed, exactly like a large shrub.

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10 Responses to “Solar Powered Shrub Car is Not Your “Garden Variety” EV”

  1. mrsteve007 mrsteve007 says:

    How can a \’car\’ without any solar panels be solar powered?

  2. geva geva says:

    It’s easy… the sun provides energy to plants, photosynthesis occurs and they grow. They get eaten by animals and small dinosaurs, then larger dinsaurs eat the smaller dinosaurs. Eventually, they all die, and the sun once again lends a helping hand to cause them to decompose. Hundreds of millions of years later, underground pockets filled with fossil fuels are exploited to remove and process the surrounding natural gas, rendering it usable in natural gas electric generation plants. These plants generate electricity that is shipped to the the terrestrial rover via “extension cord” which charges its batteries. Le voila… solar powered electric (shrub) car!

  3. Archie Archie says:

    I pity the dog that lifts a leg on this shrub — zap! ouch!

  4. Jedibabe Jedibabe says:

    Why?

  5. whippeteer whippeteer says:

    We are the knights that say NEE and we demand a shrubbery!!!

  6. Mitchel Burroughs Mitchel Burroughs says:

    Very awesome article. Truely..

  7. Freda Stubbs Freda Stubbs says:

    If I had a nickel for each time I came to http://www.inhabitat.com... Superb post!

  8. loblollyboy loblollyboy says:

    Honey, the car needs mowing…

  9. solarrhino solarrhino says:

    That shrub moves at a pretty good clip!

  10. derekDehail derekDehail says:

    hahah this is fantastic!!

    derek

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