2015/2016 Aston Gardens Goes GREEN

Aston Gardens at Pelican Pointe in Venice, Florida, has upgraded their electric vehicle fleet with Solar Power.  Solar EV Systems has partnered with Simply Solar Services out of Orlando, Florida, to outfit Aston Gardens with Solar Powered Shuttle Vehicles and Facility Maintenance Utility Vehicles. 

Solar powering their vehicles will extend run time with 540 WATTS of Solar,  a substantial decrease in dependence on utility power plug-in charging, continuous charging throughout the day, extend vehicle run time / mileage, and solar will extend the service life of the battery pack; keeping our resources in use longer and long term operational costs lower. 

The Solar EV Team has not only created the first 540 Watt integrated solar roof, but the prototype became possible and fully scaled to production and operation because Aston Gardens wanted "AS MUCH SOLAR AS POSSIBLE."  The stock roof of the vehicle was short, you had to bend over to get into the vehicle, so we created new roof supports and raised the roof over six inches with the help of our local fabricators, Lost Fabrication LLC.

This new vehicle has the solar capacity of over 60% from the electric plug-in charger.  With the high efficiency monocrystalline 540 Watt solar system, this vehicle can be plug-in free and can operate via the sun and never be plugged in!

University of Southern Georgia Goes Solar

June 20, 2014

Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA, has gone SOLAR!!!   The university is outfitting 25 of its electric maintenance and campus transport vehicles (golf carts) with our 100-Watt Bolt-On Solar Kits to its fleet of 48v ClubCar and EZ-GO.  Through the continued support of one of our elite dealers, Solar-Sphere, Kris & Russell put in lot of effort to help GSU to make their campus go solar. 

Not only will GSU save on daily energy cost and consumption, but the solar kits will help drive the vehicles a longer distance between charging.  Longer distance and plug-in utility savings also equals a tremendous increase battery life from the current 18-24 months by up to and over 60 months.  This will help save the university an approximate cost of $600-800 on replacement batteries per vehicle while, keeping them in service longer, sustaining and extending their current resources without the need for costly annual to bi-annual battery replacement.

Thank you from the Solar EV Systems Group and Solar-Sphere for the continued efforts to Solar Power Electric Vehicles!