Shareholders,

The Winter Edition of our Quarterly Newsletter has been sent out to each of you. If you don’t see it, please check spam first as generally when people tell us they didn’t receive it, they find it in their spam folder.

If you have changed our email address or are not finding the Newsletter, please email us and let us know.

We want to make sure each of you receives our Newsletters so you will be up to date about our progress as we move forward.

This edition covers a variety of topics including design and manufacturing updates, our DOD contract and attending CES in January.

Our Autumn Shareholder Newsletter just went out.

We have now learned which Army base will receive a Solar Road Panel installation: the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, New Hampshire. They research solutions for coping with cold weather for military and civil applications. This will give them a chance to test out our heating elements in the cold New Hampshire winters. 

We visited the base this month and also went to Washington DC to exhibit and speak at the Association of the United States’ Army’s Annual Meeting and Exposition. More details in the Newsletter. Hope you all enjoy. 

We have some exciting news to share! Recently, we entered the xTech Clean Tech competition, sponsored by the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology) to help the Army achieve their stated goal “to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30%, by 2030” – a very worthy goal in our estimation. They state, “The xTechSBIR Clean Tech competition is seeking novel, disruptive concepts and technology solutions that have both civilian and military applications” – perfect for SR. We passed through the first two elimination rounds over the last few weeks and today we learned that our proposal was selected for a Direct to Phase II award: $1.7 million pending contract finalization to install a pilot site with our Solar Road Panels on an Army Base. 

We can’t wait to find out which base we’ll be working with to install Solar Road Panels and showcase features that will be beneficial to the base: Intelligent Infrastructure, Clean Energy, Pothole Free, Dynamic LED Lights and Heating Elements. 

A Shareholder Newsletter just went out with more details.

Thank you all for being with us on this journey toward making the world both Greener and Safer with our solar hexagons!

We know that all of you who care about the environment, clean water and air, wildlife, and sustainable living as we do see many reasons to be concerned. But we are hard at work on what we believe to be A Real Solution.

Now more than ever, people tell us that they care about Sustainability and Energy Independence. Thanks to your help, we can soon offer our panels to help meet those goals.

Scott is feeling recovered from his open heart surgery and just had a wonderful check up with his cardiologist who says the surgery was definitely a complete success. What a blessing to be about to continue on with our mission and work to implement it throughout the world. We continue to be grateful to everyone who sent well wishes and prayers.

Today we are sending out a new edition of our Shareholder Newsletter. Please let us know if for some reason you don’t receive it.

Good News Shareholders:

We’ve received FCC (US) and ISED (Canada) approval!

The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in the US. The ISED does the same in Canada.

Our Solar Road Panels have small internal radios. That’s how they “talk” wirelessly. Our USB dongle also contains an identical radio and allows a computer to communicate with the panels. This is used to put new LED patterns in the panels, change the patterns, read the sensors, control the heating elements, etc.

We submitted our panels and dongles to a third-party testing facility and passed all FCC and ISED requirements. We sent the test results to the FCC and ISED simultaneously and received approvals from both agencies.

This is one of the things paid for by the funds we raised on StartEngine. One step closer to that finish line!

We just sent out our Christmas Shareholder Newsletter to each shareholder. Please check all of your folders, but if for some reason you don't see it, please email Julie@SolarRoadways.com.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas from snowy North Idaho. 

https://solarroadways.com/a-bump-in-the-road/

New blog post written by Scott about his recent open heart surgery for those of you who would like to hear more of the details about this part of our journey. Notes from Julie too. Hope you enjoy.

Thank you all for being with us as Scott recovers. 

If you're following us on social media, you already know this, but if you're not, we want to let all of our shareholders know that Scott had open heart surgery last Thursday. He had sudden chest pain, which sent him to the hospital where he was admitted for a variety of tests. That determined that his heart was overall very healthy and strong with no blockages. He had one big problem: his aortic valve was toast and he needed to have it replaced in order to continue on this earthly journey. 

Julie tried to post an update here letting you all know, but Scott does all of the StartEngine updates on his computer. She reached out to StartEngine for help but they were not able to do an update for her. She has been keeping everyone updated on social media. We have been so touched by all of the wonderful comments and knowing that people all over the world have been praying. 

Scott is recovering much faster than expected and was released from the hospital yesterday, just four days after surgery.

The doctors say the total recovery time is three months, so please be patient if we are not able to respond or handle things as quickly as before. 

The big task for this week is to get the challenge coins sorted and ready to mail. 

Hi Everyone,

We sent out our first Shareholder Newsletter yesterday. If you are a Shareholder and did not receive it, please let us know. We also asked for any updates on mailing addresses. We’ve ordered the Challenge Coins and want to make sure we send them to the correct addresses.

News:

We have both good and bad news. We like to hear bad news first, so we’ll start with that.

Our two DOD Phase II applications were placed in the “Selectable/NotFunded” Category. We were very disappointed as the funding would have covered the cost of Solar Road Panels for the bases that gave us MOUs. They say if more funding becomes available, we could still be funded.

However, the good news is that our Smart Grid solution was deemed Selectable for an AFWERX STTR Phase II and an AFWERX SBIR Phase II.

This gives any potential government stakeholders a sole source mechanism to deploy our solution to meet their green energy mission requirements through an SBIR (or STTR) Phase III.

Advantages of the Phase III:

•    Sole Source (no competition required)

•    Have unlimited dollar values

•    No time limit between Phase I/II award and a Phase III

•    No limit on types of funding (R&D, OMA, OPA, etc.)

•    No limit on Government agencies that can create or use the vehicle

We welcome inquiries from any U.S. bases who would like pilot projects.

Now for some really great news: We’ve been following through with our intention to use much of the StartEngine funding toward getting FCC and UL approvals. It’s been a time-consuming process. We sent several panels and communication devices for FCC testing. We’ve passed the tests and now we’re waiting for certification.   FCC certification is a type of product certification for electronic and electrical goods that are manufactured or sold in the United States. It certifies that the radio frequency emitted from a product is within limits approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). We’re also getting Canadian approval.

We sent UL an SR4 panel and communication devices. We’re seeking UL approval on the SR5 model currently under design. UL is being very helpful in suggesting ways to quicken the UL approval process.

Scott is working on SR5 design and it’s a very good thing to finally have the funding to be working with UL simultaneously. If we had completed the design and then sent it for UL approval, they might have rejected design components that would have sent us back to the drawing board. So, while it feels like SR5 is taking a long time to finalize, it’s much more time and cost effective to work with them now and learn that they are going to reject a certain component for instance, so that it’s eliminated from the design now. We are currently working to find and settle on some UL approved components such as connectors and safety devices.

Our goal is to have FCC certification, UL approval, and mass manufacturing set up for the model SR5 to be rolled out next year. We are currently working with an automotive manufacturer, who is helping us design SR5 for ease of manufacturing. They have estimated that they can produce 600,000 Solar Road Panels per year at one of their facilities in the U.S. Our goal is and has always been that every panel which is slated for installation within the U.S. will be manufactured in the U.S. They also have several facilities overseas when we’re ready for the foreign market. It’s best for the environment that they be manufactured close to where they are going to be installed to reduce the need for shipping. As part of our mission to make the world a greener and safer place, we are working to make decisions accordingly.

Some of you may have seen DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s video on Twitter where he is standing by some solar panels on a road in Georgia. He spoke in very positive terms about the technology and the help it will be for Electric Vehicles and helping to stop Climate Change. We assume that he wasn’t aware that the panels he was standing next to were made by one of our “copycats” as we like to call them – in France! Many of our supporters tried to direct him to our American company, and we retweeted many of those. We’re reaching out to him and created this photo for him:  

If you are not yet following us on social media, we hope you’ll do so. We’re active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. We vary the content considerably between platforms. 

Again, thank you for helping us to make the world a greener and safer place for us all.

Scott and Julie Brusaw

Solar Roadways Founders

Sad news to report. Today we had to make the painful decision to have our beloved Chantilly put to sleep after she had a massive seizure. We knew she had cancer, but she was still enjoying life and not appearing to be in pain. She even went for our daily forest walk this morning. Then she went to work with Scott as she often does and suddenly had a massive seizure. She has been our faithful companion on this journey for almost fourteen and a half years and will be missed more than we can say. She posed for this iconic photo on the SR2 panels. We pray that she is enjoying a great welcoming in Heaven this evening and enjoying reconnecting with her loved ones who went before her.

 When the seizure occurred, we were working on our Shareholder Newsletter with the intention of sending it off to our Shareholders today. Please bear with us and we’ll finish it and email it to everyone soon and then post our news in an update as well.