Research & Development [more information & pictures are coming soon]

SunPack™ is a revolutionary new framework for distributed, human scale personal mobility. Recharge your e-bike (& other stuff too) using your choice of 45w, 90w, or 180w of embedded solar power, all while keeping important items inside of a locking, rigid, waterproof composite enclosure.

SunBoost™ 360 ° is solar race car technology for your electric bicycle! Travel the world with up to 360w of solar securely attached to your e-bike or bike trailer. Each SunBoost™ 360° system folds to fit inside of a SunPack™ when not in use. Gang up multiple systems in parallel for even more power.

We have pursued the idea of a purpose built, two wheeled solar powered adventure bike since 2015, after being exposed to Appalachian State University's solar race car program. Now, after 10 years of testing and refinement, and thousands of miles of testing, we present the SunHorse™. This groundbreaking multi-class e-bike runs as cool as a calculator. Featuring up to 450w of removable solar, it can also fast charge using any J1772 level 2 charging station.

The SunMan™  is the result of a simple question with no answer: What would it look like if you, (one man, woman, or otherwise designated human) could build your own vehicle yourself? How hard could it be to simply order the parts, have 'em show up to your house (or makerspace) in a reasonable amount of time, and then assemble the thing over a long weekend? Why don't people build kit cars anymore, and wouldn't it be easier than ever with a little help from the internet? Our answer to these questions, called SunMan, has been in continuous development since 2018.  In the future, we endeavor to sell the SunMan as either a kit, or finished vehicle, depending on your individual requirements. 

The SunSeven™ is a solar powered concept car here to challenge everything you think you know about automobiles. It is the world's first bamboo spaceframe vehicle. It is built in the style of the legendary Lotus 7, as detailed in the 1997 book entitled 'How To Build Your Own Sports Car For As Little As £250' by Ron Champion. We think that Colin Chapman would be impressed with our novel use of the advanced natural fiber composites that we have developed in-house (see below). In the future, we endeavor to sell the SunSeven as either a kit car or finished vehicle.

Bam-A-Lam™ is our proprietary frame building material. It features a core material made entirely of bamboo, sustainably sourced from the Appalachian mountains of Western North Carolina, and is complimented by a complex array of laminated natural fiber composites. Depending on the application, we utilize a wide range of natural fiber composite reinforcements in the construction of this new tube material, including flax, hemp, jute, kenaf, sisal, silk, recycled cotton, bio-dyneema, and more. All of our products are laminated using bio-based epoxy resin, which means that our finished frames are made from 60-80% natural materials by weight. Our specially designed tube stock or sandwich core material is stronger, by weight, than a comparable section of steel or aluminum. At the same time, Bam-A-Lam offers superior vibration dampening and other life cycle qualities that cannot be found in any metal or traditional composite material. We created the SunSeven concept car to showcase our advanced new Bam-A-Lam material to the world, and to show our customers what could be possible in the near future of electric vehicles. 

SunSkin™ is our proprietary body panel material. It is made through a specially engineered resin infusion process that ensures the composite base materials are fully impregnated with resin, all while relying on the underlying support mesh of bamboo to double as the resin flow channels. SunSkin is very similar, in principle, to BCOMP composites, except that ours are made for the light electric vehicle industry instead of the automotive industry. We also use slightly different base materials, and include embedded solar cells on the outside, since all of our vehicles are designed to be solar electric. All of our soft tooling is handmade in-house by Sol Mobil in North Carolina. We then hand-lay each individual solar cell into a permanent matrix of bio-based resin. Utilizing cellular level manufacturing techniques borrowed from aerospace manufacturing, coupled with our years of experience with solar powered bicycles, we were finally able to create viable, strong, super lightweight solar EV body panels that are uniquely well suited to electric vehicle applications large and small.  Typical residential solar panels are waaaaaay too heavy for most electric vehicle applications ... but the current market offerings for lightweight solar panels are not nearly as robust as residential panels. Which has left a serious hole in the market for mobile solar ... until now!