Who would feel safe in an 827 lb car?
On Sunday, December 9, 2018, 11:37:15 AM CST, Lawrence Rhodes via EV
<[email protected]> wrote:
I can only say that my attempts of education here have failed. I will try
again. Elon is a devious and secretive person. That is fine, he is in
business and needs to protect himself. He is right, his wonderful but piggy
cars are energy hogs. At 5000 pounds he would have to tow a fairly large array
to make the numbers work. However he has something up his sleeve. Every time
I talk to my friends at Tesla about solar vehicles they shut up like clams.
Tesla is well aware of the Cruiser Class(class rules mandate multiple
passengers and a trunk. That is a practical car) at the World Solar Challenge.
Tesla sponsors that class. Many higher ups at Tesla are solar team alums. They
know what it takes and it isn't the current crop of Tesla design. Neither is it
a rolling ping pong table. Here is what works. A four wheel vehicle with: a
weight of 850 pounds, CD of .016, a 15kw battery, 1.5kw solar array & seating
for 4. This design in the 2015 World Solar Challenge set a record over two
days on one full charge of 931 miles. This design was so successful that the
rules were changed in 2017 reducing the size of the solar array. I hope now
with this information everyone will realize that solar vehicles are indeed
possible technically. Can they be manufactured successfully? I don't know.
However they exist. Three generations have been built by the students of
Eindhoven University in the Nederland's and have won all three challenges in
the Cruiser class started in 2013. The Challenge is bi-annual. These vehicles
can go 400 miles just on the battery. With solar they are capable of 45mph
just on the array.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_(solar_vehicles)https://www.google.com/search?q=three+generations+of+stella+solar+vehicles&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixuczNoZPfAhXhgVQKHRQ3BBQQ_AUIDygC&biw=1579&bih=891So
please don't be so happy to think solar vehicles are not possible. Just not
the way you want them to be. These vehicles meet Dutch crash standards but
they do use racing harnesses and have no air bags. The 2017 Stella Vie is a 5
passenger vehicle. Lawrence Rhodes
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