While it sure sounds like a fun project...by far the easiest way to have a solar-powered car is to leave the panels at home, on the roof of the garage or home. Unless I'm sorely mistraken, a significant fraction of the EVs owned by people reading these words are already solar-powered.
Not to discourage you from what, again, sounds like a fun project! I'd just suggest that you might want to present it not so much as a solar-powered car but as a super-efficient EV that, oh-by-the-way, carries its solar panels with it as opposed to the large-and-growing population of garden-variety solar-powered cars that leave their solar panels at home. Cheers, b& On Sep 26, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Lawrence Rhodes via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > It seems that the numbers don't lie. There is now a proven design which will > allow you very good range with a small battery pack and good speed. The > Stella. My next project after the electric motorcycle will be a road going > vehicle with a top of solar panels. The Stella proves ugly is good at least > for a family solar car. I'm going to build mine using a Leaf battery pack. > It will be heavier than the Stella and have more battery capacity but that > is not set in stone.I will make a tear drop tube frame and cover it using > light plastic or abs sheet. The vehicle will look like a tadpole with a wide > tail. The Stella proves you can have a very blunt front edge and still have > efficient CD. I'll use four hub motors. Seating for four or 6 will be > slightly recumbent. Small space in rear for storage. It will be very > similar to the Stella in looks but a lot simpler. I don't want to reinvent > the wheel. It would be nice if it could cruise at 25 or > thirty mph and still charge the battery. However I'd be happy if it would > charge in a day of bright sunlight and have a 200 mile range. Now to source > the parts. That's where the group can help. The Stella used individual > solar panels laminated into the roof of the vehicle. What is the best to use > to get at least 1.2kw? Bicycle hub motors. What are the most efficient for > the money? Using four if they are all 10000 watt motors this should do the > job for freeway speeds. A Rudman charger of some sort unless the solar > panels are enough. Simple disc brakes when not using regen. I'll be making > the frame from bicycle chromoly. I'm going to try to get Zzipper to make the > windshield.. All comments are welcome. Lawrence Rhodes > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140926/42ea0963/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) > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140926/426790e9/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ 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)
