Don Dunklee manages a Rite-Aid by day. By night, he's a DIY maverick who built his own solar-powered scooter that gets him too and from work without the hassle of gasoline. When he rides it, the solar panels are folded up unobtrusively on the side of the scooter. When he gets to work, he opens up the panels so they can soak up some rays. By the time he gets out of work, he's get enough juice to get him home again.

Sure, it probably doesn't hold enough to make it more than a day or two with cloudy weather, and he's sure to look like a dork tooling down the road on a yellow electric scooter, but kudos to Don for putting the time and energy into such a unique project. Even better? He made the plans available online on his website so anyone can build one too. — Adam Frucci

Build it Solar, via Book of Joe