Evergreen Solar, Inc.
(Nasdaq: ESLR), a manufacturer of STRING RIBBON solar power products with
its proprietary, low-cost silicon wafer manufacturing technology, announced
today that its panels are being used to provide the electricity for a new
electric vehicle battery recharging station in a high-traffic area in Frankfurt,
Germany.
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The solar "fuel" station provides free battery charging for small-scale
electric vehicles including Velotaxis, Segways, electric bikes and scooters.
The station contains six charging ports all of which receive their power from
the Evergreen Solar panels located on the building's roof. The installation is
located in a major shopping district allowing people to power their vehicles
while they shop. On a hot sunny, summer day the station will produce
approximately 21 kWh of electricity and enough annually to power 115,000
kilometers of travel for the average e-scooter. The cost of the installation was
€65,000 and was shared by the project's partners Ralos GmbH, Mainova AG, traffiQ
GmbH, Umweltforum Rhein Main e.V., Frankfurter Sparkasse, Velotaxi M. Graf,
Rossel-Display GmbH & Co. KG and the Goethe Gymnasium, a high school in
Frankfurt.
"This new solar 'fuel' station will serve as a model for the transportation
industry and is a major step forward in helping promote environmentally-friendly
transportation," said Peter Rusch, Evergreen Solar's director of marketing and
sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. "As a company that produces solar
panels delivering the most electricity with the smallest carbon footprint, we
feel a project like this one is very much in line with our brand and our overall
mission."
The charging station became fully operational on March 31, 2009. It is open
to the public from 9:00 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday, and from 9:30
a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Saturday.
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