This is akin to a horizontal Savonius wind turbine with PV on the blades to harvest both wind and sun. They were very vague about power output. There was one at a green festival near a hydrogen powered hummer. Both abysmal fails. PV belongs on an array, not a car.
-------- Original message -------- From: "Ing. Marco Gaxiola" <[email protected]> Date:01/02/2014 5:45 PM (GMT-05:00) To: 'Electric Vehicle Discussion List' <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [EVDL] Its a pih: Ford to debut NOT-A-solar car Bruce, you actually hit the point... I'm pretty sure that most of this list which owns, has owned, converted or has had something to do in a tech level with EV's are aware that, as much roof and vehicle space you use to cover it with solar cells to get the sun's energy; would not be enough to power one commute day of any conventional electric vehicle. Unless those experimental vehicles such as Aurora, Tonatiuh, etc.. (and even some of those use a small battery)(which are not common daily vehicles) ....so the reason of posting this is to hear comments about, What is Ford's intention? Just to get some public adds and catch media attention? Usually most of the people who doesn't know any about EV's and solar energy will think that this car is a real innovation and makes them believe is going to save the world. But what does Ford engineers say? Sales people? I agree that best think on this is to have a fixed solar system, but also makes sense to have some little extra power for car accessories or just maybe when going on vacations and don't worry to let the EV plugged but find it completely charged? Would be great to approach them at CES and find out more. Ing. Marco Gaxiola Futuro Inteligente - CEO/Director https://www.facebook.com/EvMarch -----Mensaje original----- De: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] En nombre de Bruce EVangel Parmenter Enviado el: jueves, 02 de enero de 2014 02:07 p.m. Para: [email protected] Asunto: [EVDL] Its a pih: Ford to debut NOT-A-solar car Its not a solar car. It is a Ford C-Max pih with a small amount solar film on the roof. What is the big deal? Because Ford did it? Of course. They are paying to have their news broadcasted on the media outlets. Is a solar car? ... no. Neither was my Blazer conversion EV that had two small PVs mounted in the hood. http://brucedp.150m.com/blazer/ Its just another misleading marketing ploy, whipped up by a media feeding frenzy after a Holiday quiet spell. With my efforts to keep the evdl charter in mind, I will post this piece later to the nabble archive. I already have plenty of links on this from last night to wade through, as the newswires are saturated with Ford's misleading promotion. {brucedp.150m.com} - On Thu, Jan 2, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Ing. Marco Gaxiola wrote: > Who is attending CES in Nevada?.... Ford will debut a solar-powered > electric car at the Consumer Electronics Show CES next week. > http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/02/autos/ford-solar-car/index.html?hpt=hp > _c2 - -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140102/7f7819e7/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
