Green Cars Running on Solar, Wind or ... Air? Yeah, Right

Jim Motavalli
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Be on the lookout for "solar-powered," "air-powered" or "wind-powered" cars. Renewable energy is great, but it is absolutely incapable of being the sole on-board source of power for car and truck
engines. It won't happen now, and it won't happen in the near future. George Jetson can buy a car like that (it folds up, too), but you can't.

I bring this up because the new Planters Nutmobile has both a wind turbine (an industry first, Planters says) and solar panels. But you have to read the fine print. Both of them are there to provide power for the LED interior lights and the sound system. That's it. The peanut-shaped craft actually runs on 5% to 20% biodiesel.

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