All good things must come to an end....
Today I sold the Metro to Roy at EBikes Hawaii.
I'm glad to see the Metro go to someone able to relate to the technology.

Why no more Geo? I needed a little more range so I decided to get a Fiat 500E.

Have fun Roy....

Solar car vent

I added a solar power car vent. It takes the edge off of the high temperatures of the interior. I think I need to up the power to make it more effective. Right now it is just at 2.5 watts.
Here is the panel.

Here is the fan

More solar charging cars

Really like these guys ideas:
https://www.sonomotors.com/sion/

charging with the sun

This is actually from 2013, but want to get back to solar charging......

I would like to use solar panels to charge the batteries.
I liked this concept:

Here is another concept:

Inside of charger I want to reconfigure for 220 v use

Charging at public charging stations

Finally got all the ducks in a row and am charging at the Honolulu Zoo as I write this post.

I moved the 110 charging port to a location behind the rear license plate, where I added a hinge.

Here is the new 220 charging port.

Plugged in.

Installed a switch to go from 110 to 220

Can you say spaghetti?

The idea is that each power strip can supply two power supplies. Presently I have 2 pairs, but plan to expand to 3 pairs for faster charging. The power strips come with their own breaker which is a nice safety feature.

I changed out the 12 v charger and the 12 v power supply for the fan for  models that automatically switch from 110 to 220