Mission

Hello. My name is Omid (LinkedIn)

What started as a project of passion, quickly turned into a full blown endeavor. Most countries lack the electrical infrastructure to support the charging of millions of electric vehicles. At the same time, solar panel prices are dropping at a dramatic rate (~12% YoY), making them the ideal technology for most off-grid electrical applications. Meanwhile, Perovskites and tandem cells are increasing the conversion rate of solar cells at a staggering rate — making them ideal to charge our vehicles.

Solar is one of the cheapest electricity sources, with levelized costs of $24-96/MWh. Solar release the least greenhouse gases (~40-50 g CO2e/kWh), far below coal (~980 g CO2e/kWh) and gas (~465 g CO2e/kWh).

If every electric vehicle today had a solar rooftop equivalent to 1,000 watts — it would significantly contribute to meeting the world's power needs and sustainability goals. Electric vehicles have the added benefit of containing a large battery, or power bank. If electric vehicles could charge under the sun, store the power, and provide power to a home at night, then much of the global energy needs can be resolved.

Electric vehicles are also parked 80% of the time, so it makes sense to use solar cells to slowly drip charge them. Slow charging is better for the lifecycle of most batteries compared to “supercharging”.

On a human ethical level, if every person charged their electric vehicle with solar cells, then energy production would be decentralized. Decentralized energy production has many benefits — predominately aiding in the event of a disaster or catastrophic scenarios. While global electricity prices increase 10% YoY, solar users have the advantage of locking in savings that will compound for the foreseeable future.

Decentralization of basic human needs is also a central tenet of mine. If each of the basic human needs of an individual were decentralized, then each person could innovate, develop arts, delve in a hobby without having to become an economic slave to others.

DartSolar products are designed to be repairable, putting aside “strategic” growth plans that included planed obsolescence. Locally repairing and innovating has many environmental, economical, and longevity benefits. With the advent of 3D printing, we aim to create a community of DIY engineers to not only repair products locally, but innovate and customize the expandable solar array to different vehicle makes and models.

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