Solar-Powered Electric Cars Save the Planet — and Money, Too!

Nearly every major car company is releasing an electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid in the next 12-18 months. Great news, but it gets even better when you power up that electric car using a PV solar energy system on your home.

Peder Norby's Cooper Mini-E is powered by home solar energy

Peder Norby, a San Diego County Planning Commissioner and Stellar Solar customer, has been doing exactly that for the past 18 months. He drives an electric Cooper Mini-E and recharges it by plugging it into his solar-powered house.

Not only is Peder helping to save the planet — he’s saving a huge amount on transportation costs, too.

Turns out that the cost to drive 1 mile on solar power is about 1/20th the cost of driving the same distance using gasoline!

At $3.00 per gallon, a 20 mpg gasoline car costs about 15¢ per mile to drive.  But solar electricity can be generated at your home for as little as 7¢ per kilowatt-hour and will propel an electric car about 3.5 miles… a net cost of 2¢ per mile!

The last time a gasoline car cost that little to drive was in the 1970′s… when you could buy gas for 39.9¢ per gallon!

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