Batteries from Nkon.nl anyone?

[guerney]

For longer trips there will be a small trailer containing a larger battery, and the bike might grow small 20W or so front and rear horizontal solar fenders!

Is this a viable proposition?

The Maxun solarbike project

https://avdweb.nl/popular/solarbike/maxun-solar-bike

Bumpers? To prevent pedestrian dwarf neck injuries?

 

[matthewslack]

Is this a viable proposition?

The Maxun solarbike project

https://avdweb.nl/popular/solarbike/maxun-solar-bike

Bumpers? To prevent pedestrian dwarf neck injuries?

It's an efficient lightweight solution, but I struggle to believe it is safe in windy conditions, or when buffeted by the turbulence produced by large vehicles.

Smaller area panels along the same lines would work for a bike not ridden continuously.

 

[guerney]

It's an efficient lightweight solution, but I struggle to believe it is safe in windy conditions, or when buffeted by the turbulence produced by large vehicles.

Could take off in high winds? With such a worldwide glut of cheap solar panels, I've read about people situating them mostly vertically to make solar garden fences. Not as efficient, but perhaps a front boxy solar fairing would make being a dwarf safer in in close proximity to such vehicles, as well as reduce lift and drag. Otherwise dwarf neck armour may need to be invented.