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Stella Vie - A 5 seater luxury solar racer!
The Technical University of Eindhoven presented the newest incarnation of their solar racer family car: the Stella Vie.
The new regulations of the Aussie Solar Challenge allow for longer cars and limit the area for solar cells to 5 square meter, which means more room to play for the uncovered area.
And it shows.
The previous Stella cars were stumpnosed and bladetailed.
The Stella Vie has a much more aerodynamic and aesthetic body, with 9% less drag than the Stella Lux and 20% less drag than the first Stella:
More info on the TUE news site: https://www.cursor.tue.nl/en/news-ar...-stella-vie-1/
Quote:
Stella Vie in a nutshell
Weight: approx. 380 kg
Dimensions: 5 m long, 1.65 m wide, 1.22 m high
Roof surface area: 5 square meters
Battery: 50 kg
Range: 1000 km on 1 charge (on a summer's day in the Netherlands)
Number of occupants: 5
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and https://solarteameindhoven.nl/
(not fully up to date at the time of posting)
The team hopes to get it certified as road legal, just like the previous Stella cars.
Presentation. Skip to 52:45. Dutch, but probably largely self-explanatory.
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Last edited by RedDevil; 06-21-2017 at 05:14 PM..
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