Solar Powered cars are a realistic possibility?
Posted on February 4, 2010, under Sports Cars Articles.
Solar cars are the wave of the future. Or not.
True solar-powered cars are actually electric motor powered by solar panels. The panels produce electricity by converting sunlight into energy stored in batteries. These batteries are the vehicle.
The problem is that manufacturers of solar-powered cars have not figured out how to get some very big … to solve problems, so really solar car from the marketpracticable.
To use energy efficiently from solar, solar-powered car would be much lighter, they must be designed so close to the aerodynamically perfect as possible … None of these restrictions for a good road car. After all, you do not want a machine that at least 5 people can wear and walk 70 km / h on the highway? And what about air conditioning?
If this is what you want from a vehicle, you do not want a solarwa … yet. In the first place where the solar-powered cars can now not more than 2 people do. Now you can be great, you want a sports car. But if you're a sports car, you probably need to go beyond a speed of 60 miles per hour.
Grants will continue to work with solar cells enable them to very, very small, and the machines they use to be more "user friendly".
But in the meantime, just because the real sunThe cars can still dream about these things could be the solar powered hybrid vehicles actually turns out to be quite practical.
In fact, systems that use solar energy to charge a battery hybrid cars (with an additional solar battery system), the engine that are actually hybrids of work for long periods in the electric (rather than gas) state, before having to pay . The use of such a solar system can be loaded in order to increase fuel economy by at least25%.
By reducing the dependence of charging the battery hybrid running on solar energy instead of gasoline power, the use of solar energy, hybrid cars do even more "green" than they already are.
Take care,
Steve Roberts
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