EV List Lackey via EV wrote:
I managed to find the article... <https://v.gd/X9prd1> Top speed 42 km/h,
Weight 170kg
For comparison, in 1987 the GM Sunraycer won the World Solar Challenge - all
energy from the sun... Top speed 109 km/h, Weight 177 kg.
These - and many others over the decades - are literal academic exercises.
Maybe an obscenely wealthy person could commission one like them as a toy.
Most of us couldn't, and probably wouldn't want to anyway. Cool as they
are, they're not really very safe or practical for public roads.
I wouldn't go quite that far. They are experiments, to explore the
limits of the possible.
An electric bicycle is a practical example of a hyper efficient vehicle.
They aren't as safe as an armored SUV tank; yet millions of them are on
the roads every day.
Wouldn't it be great if the automakers hired some of these students and put
them to work applying some of their efficiency optimizations to production
EVs?
Dream on, I guess ....
Actually, GM *did* go to Paul MacReady of Aerovironment to design the
"Impact" EV for them, and they did turn it into the production EV-1.
Lee
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