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Rossi Honda plans to build three canopies with an array of solar panels to cover new display vehicles and customer cars at its Delsea Drive dealership.
The project was one of two solar-based proposals that earned the Planning Board’s approval last week. The board also approved a solar field at Landis Sewerage Authority.
Ron Rossi said he got the idea for the canopies from The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, which has a solar panel-covered canopy over a campus parking lot.
“It certainly meets what Honda’s all about, which is fuel efficiency,” he said. “We’re a green company and we’re going to get greener.”
The project comes at a good time, he added, as Honda is gearing up to present its first electric car by 2012. Rossi hopes at some point to build a solar recharging station, where electric cars can be plugged in, powered by the sun.
He expects the solar-power canopies could be up by May.
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