• Solar power Electric Semi Truck Solar Electric Trailer GENIUS: adding solar panels to semi trailers is an idea so obvious it hurts Refrigerated trailers are critical for hauling your fresh food and flowers from the farm to your local market - the problem is that they pollute like crazy, powered by red-dye diesel gensets that run around the clock, even when the truck pulling them is fully electric. • To help solve that problem, one company come up with an idea so obvious you’ll hate yourself for not coming up with it on your own:rooftop solar. • Refrigerated trailers (reefers) are critical for hauling fresh food and flowers from the farm to your local market - the problem is that they pollute like crazy, powered by red-dye diesel gensets that run around the clock, even if the truck pulling them is fully electric. • That constant diesel burn spews CO₂ and NOx into industrial and residential areas alike, and contributes significantly to fleets’ carbon emissions and noise pollution at a time when a number of municipalities are moving to regulate both,regardless of what the Annoying Orange-in-Chief wants. • It is, as they say, “a real problem,” but Sunswap Endurance thinks they’ve cracked it with a solar-powered reefer that Protran claims will keep food cold in transit without burning a drop of diesel fuel. • The idea is insultingly simple.

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  • Refrigerated trailers are critical for hauling your fresh food and flowers from the farm to your local market - the problem is that they pollute like crazy, powered by red-dye diesel gensets that run around the clock, even when the truck pulling them is fully electric. To help solve that problem, one company come up with an idea so obvious you’ll hate yourself for not coming up with it on your own: rooftop solar. Refrigerated trailers (reefers) are critical for hauling fresh food and flowers from the farm to your local market - the problem is that they pollute like crazy, powered by red-dye di

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