More recumbent solar-powered trikes

I posted about a young couple riding 11,000km around Australia on recumbent trikes, one of them solar powered. They were Azub trikes, and the solar panels were added by the young couple. The link also has information about a ready-made solar-powered recumbent trike, the Motrike/Trikexplor 320E-Solar:

https://bkhome.org/news/202305/outback-adventure-solar-powered-recumbent-trike.html

Since then, I have found other DIY solar power conversions. There was a guy here in Australia who did it in 2014. There was a post to an Australian bike forum, don't know the outcome. Um, might have the link in my browser history; yes, here:

https://www.bikeforums.net/touring/934933-set-solar-trike-tour-us-australia.html

He also posted at the Azub blog:

https://azub.eu/set-on-a-tour-across-usa-and-australia/

About two years ago, I guy in the USA did a DIY solar conversion of a Catrike Road trike and posted videos. Here is one of them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx9LjzPxL7M

And one of his posts about a year ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FAm5R5yNcI

There are more that I stumbled upon. For example, this guy in the USA posted how he constructed the solar panels frame:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji3v9UKhvt8&t=68s

...I see in his testing, he connected the solar panels direct to the battery, no MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) controller, so his test result is far from optimum.       

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