(Hopefully this isn't a re-post...)
(Currently in the southern USA...)
A german student engineering team is driving a solar powered car around the world.
Details on their site:
SolarCar - SolarCar - Hochschule Bochum
It's a somewhat more "conventional" car than the no-holds-barred flat as an aerodynamic pancake solar racers we're used to seeing.
(Of course, only an EcoModder would call it "conventional" looking.
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Quote:
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The two-seater, 573 pound car [...] has a range of 170 miles when the 4.9 kWh lithium-ion batteries are fully charged from the 32 square feet of solar panels on the vehicle’s roof, though depleted batteries can be swapped for fully charged ones for additional range. That’s exactly what the team had to do outside of Brownsville, Texas, when a cloudy day kept the car from charging. From Texas, the car will follow the southern border of the US to Florida, then head north to South Carolina, stopping for public presentations all along the way. Then it’s an Atlantic crossing by boat to Gibraltar, a drive across Europe, Russia and China, and back to Australia by sea. The team hopes to have completed their journey by mid-October,
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Source:
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/02...n-a-solar-car/