Pitsco SunEzoon Solar Car Kit (Individual Pack)

I purchased 20 of these for a STEM education program. They are used under supervision once a week for a total of about 20 minutes. We only use them for students to observe and guess what types of energy they are observing. My point being, we don't use them all that much, and they are used minimally. They worked well for about the first 2 months of the school year. I am sorry to say that almost a year later only 6 or so are working properly. The biggest issue I noticed is that the motors don't seem to be strong enough or don't get enough power from the solar panels to turn the wheels once there is some friction involved. The wheels sometimes turn when held up in the air, but won't move the car when placed on the ground. For the most part however, the ones that don't work anymore just don't turn at all.I am well aware that this is a review a year later, but for the limited amount that we use them, I did expect them to make it through the entire school year, not limp our way from November to June.

I bough this kit for my daughter science proyect! It's very easy to assemble, she assembled it be her self.

My 6 year old requested this. Great educational tool and a lot of fun to play with. Easy to build, but an adult or "big kid" will need to help for finger strength. It works great and has held up for 10 runs. It's not a toy in the traditional sense though, so don't buy it expecting it to be "kid tough". Great buy though and very happy with results.

My boys were pretty excited to work on these. As others have stated, I never got it to work. Had the whole thing assembled properly, as well. Will definitely try adding a battery to it, but for now, totally disappointed since I didn't buy just one, but two of these...one for each boy. Feels like a waste of money.

It works ok

Straight out of the undamaged packaging. I connected the solar panel to the motor via the alligator clips and in bright sunlight the motor didn't turn. I decided to put the car together while the panel sat in the sun. Putting the car together was easy, for the most part. There were about 15 plastic gears all connect like parts for a model you had to build. The car only requires 2 and the provided picture wasn't accurate as the gears were reversed. The directions had you take 1 gear out to connect to the axle but the hole for the axel wouldn't fit. This is when I realized that the labeling of the gears was wrong. After putting the car together, the solar panel/motor still didn't work. So now I am supposed to spend $5 to return the cheaply made $15 car so I can get a replacement or a refund. Something is wrong with the picture. If I could just get a replacement sent to me that would be great. Overall if yours works I think it you would probably rate it higher. I wanted to, but you can't rate something very highly if it arrived DOA.

We mainly ordered this item because we needed the wheel/chassis parts. We had our own solar panel and motor. We really liked the piece that holds the motor in place. Great project for kids.

This product was not very functional. I am an electrical engineer by education and can tell you I was very disappointed by this item. We bought it for my child's science fair, and upon initial testing the power input required for the motor was much higher than the solar cell was able to generate in direct-full high light. I tested the output of the solar cell with a volt meter and tried varying battery inputs to the motor. There is no way the solar cell would power the motor alone, much less with the additional weight and friction with the ground of the car.The ones that was shipped to me was absolutely unusable.The only reason it was not rated a 1 star was because the assembly and the teaching point of gear ratios with my daughter was still somewhat cool. Use this as an educational tool, but not as a working experiment.