Everyone's going green, or trying to, and with gas prices soaring, consumer awareness of environmentally friendly vehicles has never been higher. It's not just the Regular Joe car buyer that needs to cut down on gas purchases. Shipping and catering businesses can increase their profit margins if they can harness fuel-efficient technology as well. We should probably applaud Sopraffina Caf� in Chicago for being the first business that we know of to do so. Today, on Earth Day, the restaurant is launching a 100 percent solar-electric catering truck, the first of its kind - according to the restaurant - designed to make deliveries in the downtown Chicago area where traffic congestion and tight roads make the notion of a tiny electric truck - it looks like some sort of abandoned futuristic rickshaw, or a mini-pizza delivery truck - viable. Unfortunately for Sopraffina, we too live in Chicago, and we'll be the first to remind them that our winter - of the dreary, grey, overcast kind - lasts, oh, seven months. How that little truck will handle such little sunlight and the effects of bitterly cold weather could be fun to watch.
Source: Kicking Tires
Original Story: Chicago Restaurant First to Use Solar-Electric Car for Deliveries
This is a good news. At
This is a good news. At least now a restaurant is supporting and using a solar-electric car. Lots of news have been published already about hybrid cars. I've read many of them in blogs like ford News. But its only here that I learned about this restaurant using one for delivery.