Bennett estimated that a cart could travel anywhere from six to 10 miles a day on solar power. In some cases, the carts could operate for months without ever needing to be plugged in and recharged, he said.

Other features planned for the company’s products would allow a laptop, cooler, radio or portable television set to be plugged into the cart.

And Sol-Stainable Technologies also plans to tout the carts as an excellent backup power supply, particularly for ice storms.

The cart can store energy, Bennett said, that can be accessed via a converter. The applications would be somewhat limited, but the cart could be used to power a small heater, television set or cooler for one to two days, he said.

Sol-Stainable plans to highlight all of those features when it takes its product into the marketplace. So far, business has been in a bit of a holding pattern because of the cold weather, but as winter yields to spring and business quickens at the golf courses, Bennett and his partners expect that to change. It will be sending out dozens of introductory letters to area businesses within the next few weeks.

“We plan on getting pretty aggressive come spring,” Bennett said. “We really want to support local businesses because we are (a local business).”

Did you know?

Sol-Stainable is the first business to use the small-business incubation services offered by Crowder College’s Missouri Alternative and Renewable Energy Technologies program.