Description: SUNRIDE - John Patterson sunrides across America to promote solar energy and electric transportation by riding his solar-powered electric bike along some of the best bike trails in all 50 states. Share his humorous and sometimes dangerous adventures as he pedals on his electric bike with the solar panel canopy on top.
The solar-powered electric bike tour to all 50 states. The purpose of Sunride is to promote solar energy and electric transportation.
I’m John Patterson, and my goal is to complete my Sunride electric bike tour to all 50 states. I’ll be riding one of my two solar-powered electric bikes in each state to promote solar energy and electric transportation. You can follow my progress by reading my Blog . Being an EV owner for over 10 years now, with five electric vehicles, yes, five, (my custom electric truck, the Nissan Leaf my wife drives, my American made Tesla, and my two Rad electric bikes out of Seattle) I have become quite enthused with
Maybe I’m an energy nerd but my meter this morning showed a total of 16,789 kilowatt-hours of solar generation, and my EV meter showed 15,718 kilowatt-hours. That means I have over 1,000 kWh (or one megawatt hour) of solar energy to use. To complete my Sunride electric bike tour means riding a minimum of 3,000 miles. My electric bike gets 50 miles per kWh, so it would only take 60 kilowatt hours of sunshine to cross the country. There’s plenty of sunshine to do that. One of my goals is to use sunshine from