Walking along the South Bank in London one day I see a photovoltaic panel powering a small fan - this attempt to promote solar power was organised by Greenpeace. Hmm..I contact Bluebird - the electric sports car company and holder of the UK electric car landspeed record, based in Wales, I'd read about. The fastest EV on earth incidentally is of course American - White Lightening but had talked on several occasions in the past to Martin Rees the project manager who agreed with me on the need to rrEV up the publicity campaign. Why not have a solar panel recharging the BLUEBIRD EV? That would generate much more interest than a small rotating fan and make this a 100% emission free, environmentally benign car!
Greenpeace has done some spectacular work humilating car companies, most notably back in 1996 with its SMILE car, (SMall, Intelligent, Light , Efficient) a revamping of the Renault Twingo cutting its fuel consumption by half giving it a range of around *80 mpg. The SMILE was a production car not a prototype. and of course conveniently ignored by the motor industry.
Still working on idea to publicise recharging of EV with solar power...