Hi. take your mind back right back to 2014 when I did my first solar roadways on solar freakin' Roadways. Our most favorite solar roadways ever. And all the videos since I don't even think this is all of them.

Anyway, you thought 2020 wasn't going to go by without new solar roadways action. But right at the end here, I just did a video December 18th about how the coal as the French coalesce solar wattways. It made a comeback and got some funding from Uncle Sam in the U.s So you thought it was over, You thought, no. Surely I even wondered.

I think I speculated in this video or whatever happened to our good mates Scott and Julie Brusor of Solar Freaking Roadways fame. What about? Surely they're probably out of money now, and well, they're probably looking for some new funding. Well, they delivered. You remember the 2.2 million Yankee bucks they raised in their infamous indiegogo campaign back in 2014? And all the funding? Uh, actually, before that, and since for a total of 3.9 million dollars? and they ended up with, well, a flashing, um, light show in front of a block of Dunnies here? Um, in standpoint, I know it's still going though.

You've got to give it to him. Anyway, they delivered. They're back. They ran out of funding, but the fanboys delivered for another round of 1 million Yankee bucks this time.

not through, uh, crowdfunding as such, but through actual stock placement. This is a start engine.com and uh, these are investors. True believer investors. It just finished and they raised just over a million us dollars again.

and yeah, for a 30 million dollar valuation. Oh, it's why. Well, just because reasons. And of course, they just uploaded the same famous world Ways of Freaking Roadways.

It's exactly the same video. There's nothing new here folks. Three cycles, same, exactly the same, and it's over subscribed. And it turns out that this was one of like the fastest start engine revenue raising in history or something.

We'll get to that in a minute. But oh yeah, so they've secured their funding for the foreseeable future. But not only that, they got some more Uncle Sam bucks. Let's go to their Facebook page, shall we? So here's the start engine announcement.

Huge news! We are so excited to report that our campaign is now fully funded. Thanks to you all, Start Engine has confirmed that Solar Roadways broke their record for a first-time reg. Cf campaign by becoming fully funded in a little over 21 hours. So obviously, um, everyone on their Facebook page and I they've probably got a mailing list and everything else.

They contacted everyone and yeah, they got their funding in like 24 hours. Unbelievable. Many of you have told us you invested and so we're so grateful for you. The numbers were flying out once we reached 900k in a mad scramble as people tried to get in before it closed.

It's still possible to put on the wait list in case people drop out. You can still sign up and invest in Solar Freaking Roadways. We always say we have the best supporters in the world and this confirms that. Once again, our Solar Roadies broke two records for us on indiegogo and earned us the prize for the popular vote in both Ge Eco Imagination contest.

Put it all together, We believe this is a message that the world is truly ready for. Solar Freaking Roadways. Well, we've been ready since 2014 and well, it's been like six and a half years and uh, like still, we've just got some uh, flashing lights out the front of a dunny lock that doesn't generate any power as we saw it says produce 73 kilowatt hours in its lifetime. That doesn't include the uh, little piddly amount that it produced over here.

Back in 2018, it was producing like at its absolute peak. Oh look. 1.12 kilowatt hours. 1.12 kilowatt hours? Phenomenal.

So yeah, um, it's produced nothing in the last week, so I don't even know if it's like they're still flashing lights and don't even know if it's still connected. Unfortunately, the this is like their latest. This is the new system. They're hooked up.

They're not hooked up to the end phase system anymore. Step at 73 kilowatt hours. I know some houses with solar arrays big enough that produce 73 kilowatt hours in one day. For comparison, my own three kilowatt home solar system which is uh, smaller than this in terms of area, I believe Uh, generates like 18 times that like, Oh, sure enough, it's it's summer here.

But yeah, even during July, I'll still get in like over six kilowatt hours a day. Look at that. Eight eight kilowatt hours a day in July, They couldn't even manage one in summer. Ah, but anyway, there they are.

Happy Scott and Julie Bruce have just got their new funding. You've got to take your hats off to them. This has been a pretty sweet gig for the last like six and a half years, and it's still going to continue for many more years. You thought it was over.

You thought 2021 wasn't going to deliver solar. Freaking roadways? You were wrong. But anyway, let's scroll down here. Let's scroll down here.

Here It is on December 5th We have Big Soul news. Solar Roadies. That's what they're known as Solar Roadies. I I just call them True Believers.

Look, Santa Claus told me to find you guys. He said you guys were the only ones who would know what to do. He said Christmas must endure Christmas Must endure True Believers peers, my family tree, everybody except Dave Jones and every engineer on the planet. As most of you know, we have successfully completed three Us Dot Department of Transportation contracts.

Yes, they have. Um, because they raised here. They are. They raised a hundred thousand dollars over here for their phase One.

Then they raised another seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars from Uncle Sam Here in phase two, Us Dot is like a Department of Transport thing. Then the indiegogo campaign, then the Indiegogo on Demand. and then they had a phase three for another 750 000 bucks because it was so darn successful. They massaged the data so well that they were able to get a third round for a total of 3.9 million dollars total funding.

But now they've got another million bucks from here and I don't know. I cannot find how much they've gotten. but they've got a new Us Dot contract again. For the fourth time now, we have been notified that we've been awarded another government grant.

It's our first Us Department. and this is not just the Department of Transport. this is the Department of Defense sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory. We applied some time ago, but there are massive delays due to covert.

Uh, Finally, we've got happy news. Stay tuned for more details as we commence. We've heard from several military bases and are looking forward to working with them. Them go green and since roller panels are first and foremost intelligent infrastructure, you can imagine what the intelligence can do for the military and just imagine what these interconnected panels can do.

I, I just I'm not gonna be able to sleep tonight just imagining all the possibilities. The funding will be very welcome too and will help us move forward more quickly if you would like to be the first to receive such news, please email, Sign up for the newsletter. There you go, you can sign up. Get our look.

Oh yes. Aircraft carriers. Solar Freaking aircraft carriers. This is just.

yep. Yep, look at them. Pick up the tiles on there. Oh no.

Nice. nice photoshop work. Brilliant. Yep, that's what you want on the deck of your carrier.

your one glass strip. They haven't even. they haven't even driven a car on this in six and a half years because driving cars on solar panels worked so well in France and the Netherlands and China and everywhere else it's been tried. So yeah.

over here on uh, Pitch book It actually shows that they're founded in 2006. I'm not sure if that's right. Anyway, they've got eight employees. Yep, they just raised new.

uh, crowdfunding for a million bucks. and uh yeah. Equity Crowdfunding A million bucks grant. This is hidden, but we know exactly what.

Uh, these previous grants were Seven hundred and fifty thousand. Seven hundred fifty thousand and a hundred thousand for a total of one point Six million. And that is, uh, confirmed over here as well in a department of Uh Transport info blurb they've got on solar Freaking. Roadways are raised over 2.2 million.

But their total total dot Sbir investment is 1.6 million dollars. And now they're going to invest even more. Although it's I guess it's not dot anymore. it's the it's some military division we considered pitching to a large investors, but what we really want is for our supporters to be able to own Solar Roadways with us.

We are blessed to have interest from all over the world and we'd love to have all our solder solar roadies join us. Now you can help make the world greener and safer place, blah blah blah. And in less than 22 hours? Yep, they met their one million dollar funding goal. I'm just going to Google that, How can I invest in solar roadways? What's the best way for me to invest in solar roadways? It's a reddit thread.

Woohoo! This is from six years ago, but it's worth the Lols. What's the best way for me to invest in solar railways? These would essentially be replacing major roads with solar panels that are fit for wear and tear. They also have many other benefits. Question Mark: What's probably the best way for me to see a profit off of this? And who should I put my money to do this with? The reason this isn't being seriously funded is because it's a horrible idea.

Next post: take money out of your wallet, get lighter, light, the money on fire. Same result is invested in this scam. Don't throw your money out the window. It's a Reddit smackdown.

And of course, if you search Google images for Solar Roadway, Esparia Solar Roadways turned out to be a colossal failure. Photo show world's first solar Road. There it is a total and epic failure. This is my one stop.

this madness. Where was that was that? The German one Or the the Solar Road. That's the classic solar road. Anyway, we've all seen the photos of the solar road ones in Netherland which they've ripped up and of course the French Coal as what way one which was an epic fail.

And every single installation of solar roadways has been ripped up and removed because it's a total and epic failure. You can't drive cars on solar panels? Who would have figured? But of course, Solar Roadways has been featured in Bona County. Um. Forbes Wired, Australasian Bus and Coach.

Bona County again. Mashable. You know all this stuff's unmashable. Nbc, More Bona County.

Everyone's getting a boner over Solar Roadways. Huffington Post Engadget. That's it. More boner.

Bona Bona Boner, More wired. I effing love science and hackaday. Um. Solar Roadways.

I give you permission to put the Eevblog logo here. If you link to my Solar Roadways videos, you're welcome if I go on the waiting list for this puppy just in case somebody pulls out. Oh look. I can get these.

Invent these these coins. Look at them. I so want that. A real solution.

Dynamic lines and signage. Heated surfaces that works so well. So when they're shoveling it off. Um.

Solar Energy? Intelligent. No wonder the military's after this technology. Intelligent infrastructure, Greener and safer. Scared of the hitting? Scared of hitting Moose? Yes, I I am petrified of hitting Moose.

I need solar, freaking roadways and I want a coin that says I'm a sucker. Sorry, Um, in investor in? Uh, Start Engine. So how much did people get duped out over here on Indiegogo? Looks like the minimum was the minimum 10 bucks. I didn't.

I? I forget, it's been, you know, six and a half years ago. The minimum was ten bucks. Five people claimed a thousand dollar donation. Well, the new one.

How much can you at minimum minimum you can get in is 295 bucks. Start Engines owners buying this offers. well. It's basically tier one perk 15 merchandise discount from the online store.

And then you get coin. You get one coin if you're back with a thousand bucks. What a bargain! Two coins for your five grand, you get three coins for 10 grand, four coins for fire for 25 grand, and for a lousy hundred thousand Yankee bucks, you get the tier Six perk, which is the investor exclusive coins. Get all four of the coins, plus you receive one of the new design Sr5 solar road panels.

Wow, Because as the Department of Defense I assume they're going to get at least another 750 000. So it's probably going to be close to, you know, or even more than, uh, two million dollars U.s funding. but we don't know details on that yet. But yeah, so all these suckers, sorry, um.

in investors in, uh this because I guess you get shares in Solar Roadway. Now you get a you get equity. I've been following Solar Roadways for over two years now. I'm so sad that wasn't able to invest early.

Now I'm on the waitlist. Please accept Myra, Please accept my request. I don't want to be left out of this revolution. Ah Selvan, I'm We really feel for you here at the Eev blog.

We really do. Hi Selvin! Sadly, it's not up to us start engine. We'll keep you on the wait list in case someone else drops out. Thank you for being with us on the journey we sure hope to get in.

And and thank you Solar Roadways. It has been an incredible journey after six and a half years to get to this magnificent example of completely practical technology. Any chance of including Internet access as a return on investment? Oh, brilliant thinking. Correct.

the uh, no more. So no more towers, No more dead spot. You can do away with towers with Solar Roadways Now correct says Scott and Julie. Bruce or the Internet and cell coverage providers could lease the cable corridors alongside the roads, providing access everywhere.

We've talked to both utility companies and data companies and all have loved the idea. They've loved the idea of integrating with Solar Freaking Roadways. And there they are at Solar Roadways headquarters. I've got the big map on the wall Solar Roadways headquarters just watching the investor level go up and up.

in the 21 hours it took them to get their thing over 900k, We closed it out in 22 hours. Yay! All the kids are excited, but I know you all want to jump on the Solar Roadway share bear wanker. So let's look at the risk. a crowdfunding investment involves risk.

You should not invest any funds in this offering unless you can afford to lose your entire investment. Um, yeah, you're guaranteed to lose your entire investment Because Solar Freaking Roadways is not practical. As I and others have explained in countless videos that anyone with a functioning brain and a calculator and an envelope and a pen can figure out. Well, here's their Uh offering memorandum.

So they raised just over a million bucks in common stock at 4.55 a share. So 235 000 shares of common stock maximum. but you get a bonus for this round. 10 bonus.

Oh, Competitors and industry. The industry is infrastructure and includes all walking and driving services including roads, parking lots, driveways, sidewalks, military bases, etc. Any current anything currently made of asphalt or therefore this is a global industry where spoken with manufacturers in the U.s Canada, Germany, Austria and not Australia and South Korea, we plan to start manufacturing Us and then expand the rest of the world. Competitors: Solar Road located in the Netherlands, Complete and epic failure.

What way in France complete an epic failure? Quillow Solar Only. Oh yeah, okay, I didn't know they didn't remember their name. Located in China. Complete and epic failure Within days it was, it was down.

Platio Solar only. I mentioned that on like a quick second channel little rant video. Um, but yeah. Pedestrian surfaces only.

The industry landscape is all walking and driving services. In the world. we plan to be a global business. We are the original solar roadways just like the original Swiss Army knife versus the genuine Swiss Army knife.

They were different until they bought them out. Anyway, we first presented the concept to the world. Some competitors have sprung up in other countries with less technologically advanced products. Really, the French giant Road giant coalesce what way, which I think is by far the best implementation of solar roadways with their thin little sheet you can overlay on that was a complete.

They couldn't make a work complete an epic fire yet. You want to think that your little solo, where is it? There it is. This disco light show glass panel is going to work. Really.

Try some cars on it because the only thing that's ever been driven on solar roadways is this John Deere tractor which in my original first video I looked at it weighs half as much as my Hyundai Ionic car and it's got huge low like a low pressure large tires that distribute the weight evenly and they're just pattern along in this little John Deere tractor. But oh it's a tractor. It must be heavy. No, these things are light as and of course it's been well documented.

What happens when you drive cars on these things in, uh, you know, France, Netherlands, China. Was it one in jail? I don't know there's been too many of them, but I just can't wait for an F-18 A land on a carrier deck with solar Freaking roadways? Please Can I go watch? Look at all these? Look at those new hires. There's these new faces I haven't seen before. Director of Science Advisor, so they've got one.

I assume she's a full-time because it doesn't say advisor. So Advisor Scientist Advisor, Manufacturing Engineer Advisor, Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Drafting and Support presumably full time at Ron Kudo Advisor Electrical Engineer G'day Ronnie's fellow electrical engineer and along with Scott Bruce saw who of course has a masters in Electrical Engineering. so he absolutely knows the practicality of solar roadways. And it's just it's just a winner.

Founded by a husband and wife team on a mission, Solar Roadways has captured the imagination of a world in need of change. Let's have a look: Road data for Solar road pedals. Real-time weather and light conditions. It can measure weather and light now.

Wow. Traffic conditions, wildlife presence, disabled vehicles, crime, vehicle weights. It's got a strain gauge in it now. Wow.

Fantastic data alerts. State Traffic Management feed all that data in the state management traffic centers. Uh. Data analysis, decision making, speed adjustments, Road planning, City planning, First responders, Consumer safety on the glass? Yeah.

Convenience navigation. Parking lot road becomes a navigation display. Ah, it's just no wonder people are investing. This produces power close to the end user.

Hmm. I'm pretty sure that putting it on the roofs of buildings that are using power is a better way to do it. I just I. You know I'm no expert, but it can become a this smart grid welcoming in all forms of renewable energy.

It can like it's funnel all existing wind and other solar and other sorts of renewable energy into the solar roadways grid. It's not vulnerable to terrorist attacks, remember, it's very important uses existing right of ways rather than wildland, protecting wilderness, flora and fauna. Well, I don't see much flora and fauna on the rooftops again, But I I have this weird obsession with putting solar panels on roofs. I don't I don't know.

I don't know. why can somebody help me? Cable corridors lining each road will provide a home for cables protecting them from the wind, ice, fire, trees, etc. Well, I think he's got a photo of that. Yeah, there he is.

There's Scott down in the uh, down in the trenches there on the original prototype which I thought was the best by the way. Um yeah, waters are not gonna get into those pits at all. No, not a problem. Hang on.

We have not seen this before. More testing was uh, desired by Us Dot so a phase 2b, we didn't see this. Why have they never released this look? They've installed some panels I don't know where and they've just rolled back and forth with this rolling testing machine. Because cars, they.

they do go that quickly. I mean, that's just phenomenal speed. I'm just gonna have to slow this down. Hang on it's it's way too fast.

I've got like this, uh, speed controller here. there. We go there, we go. I've slowed it right down for you.

So clearly that can like these things are tested, it's done. It's dusted. You can drive cars on these things, but you can invest in global smart cities. Market size is expected to grow from 410 billion in 2020 to 820 billion by 20 just five years.

Just imagine the return on your solar freaking roadway shares. Ah, so bummed I missed it. Farms They want to put them in farms now. Pretty sure they already have solar panels in farms.

But okay. Ranchers big in Texas. Hang on. Big box stores are potential customers.

Race tracks? What we need is some ponies. What we need? Yeah, install them at the trots. No worries. That's what you want.

You know, the doggies. Yeah, they can race her. Oh man. Imagine the doggies scare chasing the little fake rabbit around on solar on glass tiles.

Oh that's oh. I'll pay good money to see that. Oil platforms. Genius.

You just want to install them where the oil's just spilling everywhere. I I'm sold. disaster relief because I you remember You remember if they removed this from their website because I look, I don't know why. Maybe they thought it was too good of an idea and they wanted to hide it.

But they originally pitched the idea of that. The military could drop the solar freaking roadway hexagonal panels behind enemy lines. They can drop them and then they can deploy like little satellite dishes and stuff like that. And they can.

I don't like do things um, in behind them in enemy lines. That was. That was genius idea. I reckon that they've taken that off the radar because it's just too good of an idea.

They want to keep it to themselves. You don't want the enemy to be dropping solar roadways panels on you. It's just. ah, man.

those things are heavy. Hang on allows optimal angle to the sun. Okay, on the cover of parking. Professional I I let my subscription laps.

I missed that issue. Oh, hang on. Why do we need funding? Now Some customers, such as government entities, require Ul approval for electronics products. Ah, they need Ul approval.

Yes, a lot of money required for that. Seriously, since our technology creates a new product category, Ul is only able to tell us that it will cost no more than 500 000 for this certification. Solar road panels communicate wirelessly, so we need Fcc approval unless you actually used pre-approved modules, which would have been the smart way to do it. Uh, we've received an estimated quote of nineteen thousand dollars for that.

so they need to spend at least half of this money raised so that they can get Ul to sign off and then they're gonna plaster it all. Yeah, then you can put that Ul logo on your product on your website, just like Batterizer did, which they shouldn't have because it wasn't a real certification. But this is going to be real. When you pay half a million bucks and you can get your Ul certification, that's it's done.

It's done and dusted. It's a practical product because you've got Ul certification, but yeah, it's I can imagine them charging them half a million bucks. So yep, Finally, all the solar road panel modules to date have been paired with off-the-shelf micro inverters optimizers. These are designed for rooftop solar and don't work well with our custom solar road panels.

Yeah, because they're usually designed. The thing with micro inverters is that usually designed for like, quite efficient solar panels that actually generate a large amount of power. When you're generating a percent amount of, uh, power using um, you know stuff like this, then yeah, you're going to need like smaller micro inverters. So yeah, absolutely.

We're excited to bring micro inverted design in how they're going to design their own micro inverters. No point using n phase ones. No I mean they're They're only designed for you know, bigger solar power system. They want to design their own micro inverters, offering a complete system to customers and add new products for our portfolio.

You can spend years designing your own micro inverter. Wow, They've got someone at Solar Roadway has got a guaranteed job for a couple of years. I'm sure if you contact them with your resume, if you've got inverted design experience, they'd be willing to talk to you. Sr5 will be the culmination of what we have learned through laboratory testing testing at independent universities.

Pilot site testing and four design iterations will become our first commercially available product. We are currently working with manufacturing engineers and mass manufacturing entities with an eye towards ease of manufacturing for mass production. costs will drop with economies of scale. Our goal has always been to make the panels affordable for the average homeowner.

Well, I don't care how much it costs when it comes out available for public sale, I'm going to get one. Your tax identification number has been suspended and we have filed a case under your name. So before this matter goes to Federal Claim Courthouse for you to get arrested, kindly press one. I repeat.

Press One. Press one. That's your legal case. Thank you.

I'm gonna have to press one. It's kind of ironic that I just got a scam phone call when I'm actually doing a video about essentially an impractical scam But of course, it's not really a scam, it's just like very clever marketing towards the uh, suckers sorry, uh, investors in this new thing. Plus the Department of, you know, the government. Um, because they've got money free.

You know, money printer, go, um to give away. And if you give the right proposals and you have little tiny milestones that you can meet like, oh, we've done a pendulum test on it and it's oh, look, give us another 750 thousand dollars. Please look at this. Well, it's just yeah.

we've tested this. Please give us another 750 000. Thank you very much, and they will, because they met the goal. But I still think as I said that this original prototype was the best one that they've actually installed.

They actually went downhill from there in 2011. They got that funding contract, so that's now a decade ago and I reckon that was their best installation. Um, it would look. It just actually looks kind of neat and groovy.

It's got the big concrete channels and everything next to it and everything else. and that's what. Uh, 750 000? Uh, Uncle Sam bucks Actually got. um, and now yeah, they've got got this thing.

Um, yeah, we've all seen that. Anyway, there you go. I'm sorry, I'm done taking the piss on this thing. Um, yep, they've raised another million bucks.

They've got another government contract, which I please if you have details of what that exact amount is, leave in the comments down below. But I'd be surprised if it's less than the 750 000 Yankee bucks that they got the last. uh, two times. So they've got a couple of million bucks to keep them bunk going.

So yeah, hats off to Scott and Julie Broshaw for keeping this thing going and keeping it going for many years to come. I'm sure we're going to have lots more lols in 2021 and 2022 and going onwards. This thing's just never gonna die. Leave your comments down below.

catch you next time you.