Informative Essay: How Solar Cars Can Help The Environment

Have you ever thought about helping the environment and make it healthy? Solar cars can save your money, help the environment and change the future transportation more easier. People call these cars their best friends because they use only the sun's energy to move. Solar cars are important these days because it’s a way to save money instead of paying for gasoline and it doesn’t harm the environment. You might think solar cars are really good and have really good advantages, but there is disadvantages with these types of cars too. Now lets begin.

The first solar car invented was a tiny 15-inch vehicle created by William G. Cobb. Called the Sunmobile, Cobb showed the first solar car at the Chicago Powerama convention on August 31, 1955. The solar car was made up 12 selenium photovoltaic cells and a small Pooley electric motor turning a pulley which in turn rotated the rear wheel shaft. The first solar car in history was obviously too small to drive. As years and years go on many people creates different kinds of solar cars to keep our environment safe.

Actually the only thing that are added to these solar cars are a different kind of motors that are connected to the solar panel that is on the cars. The sun's radiation/ light energy is directly changed into electricity and make the cars move. This is why people call these cars their best friends. Some people that own their own solar car changes their direction of the solar panel that are on the solar car because as weeks and months and years pass on, the rotation and the movement of the sun is different from before. This is very important because if they don’t do that the effects will be very bad. Solar cars can only use sun's energy to use and if the sun doesn’t shine on the panel no electricity is created which makes the car not move and this is a problem we are