does anyone know if she needs housing along the way? i'm guessing not with that
sleek website and many backers
harry
Albuquerque, NM
current bike: http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/1179
current non-bike: http://evalbum.com/1000
On Wed, 5/27/15, brucedp5 via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote:
Subject: [EVDL] EVLN: Muller's cross-country trip on her e-bicycle
solar-trailer
To: ev@lists.evdl.org
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2015, 3:34 AM
http://inmenlo.com/2015/05/20/marissa-muller-takes-off-on-cross-country-trip-riding-a-solar-powered-electric-bike/
Marissa Muller takes off on cross country trip riding a
solar-powered
electric bike
by Linda Hubbard Gulker May 20, 2015
[image
http://inmenlo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Melissa-Muller_solar-bike-ride.jpg
Marissa Muller steadies her solar-powered electric bike
]
Sacred Heart Prep grad Marissa Muller started her
professional career as a
journalist at CNN before taking a hard right turn and
working for companies
focused on sustainability. As she embarks from Southern
California on
Thursday atop a solar-charged electric bike on a
cross-country trip — which
she will be chronicling along the way — you could conclude
she’s combined
the two pursuits.
“The motto for the trip is ‘get well and do well,'”
she said. “Before I took
my sabbatical, I’d been traveling on business three weeks
out of the month.
I hit a ‘soft low’ one night in eastern Idaho where I
was terribly sick. As
I tossed and turned and wrestled with the sheets, my mind
wandered to the
idea of doing a cross country trip.
“I gave myself a one-week deadline to put the logistics
together or I’d
abandon the idea.”
Using mainly LinkedIn as a way to connect with people
separated by two or
more degrees, she quickly lined up an engineer at the bike
company
Specialized and then enlisted the help of another engineer
at Sun Power. The
result: the pairing of an electric bicycle and a solar
panel.
A Specialized Turbo S electric bike has been re-engineered
to rely on solar
energy to charge the battery, which powers the electric
assist motor, giving
the bicycle the extra boost of power and speed. As she
rides, the battery
will be charged by a lightweight SunPower solar panel,
designed with the
same high efficiency solar technology used to generate clean
power for
homes, businesses and utilities around the world.
Marissa, who is doing the trip solo, plans to average about
60 miles a day,
stopping at schools, businesses and municipalities along the
way to talk
about her journey before ending up in Washington, DC, where
she will present
what she learned along the way.
She foresees three types of challenges: the elements
themselves,
particularly with the tornado season dragging on, sitting on
a bike saddle
daily for three months — “every day is a training
day,” she says — and
general safety.
You can follow her journey across the country and get
involved with some
charitable aspects by visiting her website (which will go
live May 21).
Summing up the trip, she said: “It’s the ultimate
demonstration of freedom —
a clean, electric vehicle, powered by decentralized energy,
and an open road
of opportunity.”
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