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Installation of Solar Parking Lot at Tokushima Prefectural Government Office

 

Raising environment awareness by combining HIT Solar Cells, Rechargeable Batteries, & eneloop bike

  

SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (SANYO) announces the completion of a “Solar Parking Lot”^*1 utilizing SANYO’s various energy- and environment-related technologies, using HIT solar panels on the roof which recharge the batteries in bicycles equipped with electric engine assist motors while parked at the Tokushima Prefectural Government Office in Japan.

 

The “Solar Parking Lot” is a perfectly independent and clean system eliminating the use of fossil fuels, and the clean power generated from the solar panels installed on the roof is stored to be used to recharge the electric hybrid bicycle batteries. By combining solar cells with a lithium-ion battery system, recharging the electric hybrid bicycles without any commercial power source is possible even if at night or on a rainy day. The lithium-ion battery system also features AC power outlets that can be used to power external equipment during an emergency or electrical power outage.

 

The project to create a clean energy parking solution came about from an experiment…

 

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