look at the people unwittingly perpetuating marketing stereotypes (like form before function) under the guise of "humor"
Gsus4
joined 1 year ago
Wait wait, how are you calculating that? If you take a generic sea level solar irradiance of 6kWh/day/m^2^ and let's assume the car has a solar panel area of 3m^2^ (probably more, but maybe not all exposed at the same time) with a solar panel efficiency up to 30% and the cosine for solar angle (say ~0.7), given the best 0.137 kWh/km around, that gives around 30km a day. That's already enough for my weekday return commute.
All this neglects shade, cloudy days, won't work for all latitudes...but it can also be upgraded with improved battery storage/weight, improved solar panel efficiency and maybe even the area of the car top and shape of panels can be improved (e.g. make them extendable/orientable when parked). At worst, you just top it up to 500km from the grid every weekend and that will make up for the difference over the course of the week.
That would be 1000 times harder than GPS, but I'd like to see it attempted. Lots of cool spin-offs from that like anti-projectile laser beams, but also things like blinding/death rays :P
The car is a prototype built by a team of students to maximize sun-exposed surface area and minimize air drag, wtf does it matter if it's ugly to you? Fucking car fetishists.
How come there are so many here heckling prototypes for being ugly when the ford T was bought 15 million times?
I could try being the devil's advocate and argue a point or two, but I won't because I'd be overall a worse person without piracy lol