Well, I see it is a solar racing car with room for a family. It is not a
racing car. It is large, it is expensive at least as a prototype ("costs
like a house" the DUtch guy saya.) It goes 500 mile on a charge - on a
sunny day. You can get regullar cummting out of it in Holland where it is
rainy a lot. But that is not even close to 500 miles.
I still like it a lot, but its not ready for prime time. It is a nice
demonstration.
I have a small car by choice, and used to commute on an Organic Transit
ELF. It would reduce my 25 mile commute to 1 hour and get me a lit of nice
exercise. Its less than one meter square of panel was useless except as a
marketing ploy. I like small vehicles so a solar car is out of my solution
set. I would not want a car with that much acreage attached to it. I would
rather have panels at home and batteries inside the car.
On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 5:25 PM Lawrence Rhodes via EV <[email protected]>
wrote:
> You still don't get it. This car is built like a race car and is a race
> car. It is also touted as a family car. The design is monocoque
> construction like formula 1. Those cars survive 200 mph crashes. A 5
> point belt is part of the safety features. Lawrence Rhodes
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> On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 10:06 AM, paul dove<[email protected]>
> wrote: 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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