Solar Powered Shrub Car is Not Your “Garden Variety” EV
Posted By Ariel Schwartz On June 9, 2010 @ 3:50 pm In automotive,Green Transportation,Solar Power | 10 Comments
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If you’re going to drive around in a solar-powered [5] vehicle, you might as well make it a snazzy one. Enter the Terrestrial Shrub Rover [6], a solar-powered vehicle that looks, as you may have guessed, exactly like a large shrub.
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According to Shull, “In the spirit of NASA [8] and its forthcoming 2020 lunar expeditions in preparation for colonizing the moon, the Terrestrial Shrub Rover presents the opportunity to explore terrestrial and social environments back on Earth from within a manned, foliage bedecked, solar electric powered rover.”
The shrub rover doesn’t have a windshield. It does, however, have video screens and a control unit for the driver. And a second version, currently under development, will be remote-controlled via webcam. It goes without saying that if Shull ever puts the rover on sale we’ll be first in line!
+ Justin Shull [6]
Via DVICE [9]
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[6] Terrestrial Shrub Rover: http://www.justinshull.us/art/projects/terrestrial-shrub-rover/
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[8] NASA: http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/01/20/nasa-unveils-all-electric-personal-flight-vehicle/
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