Quote:
Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
The STELLA car is amazing, but it is waaaay too expensive: the two super efficient hub motors cost about $30k each.
Most homes can have much more than 900-1000 watts of solar, which is what is on the STELLA car - and on a building, solar panels can be MUCH more productive, because they are fixed. On the car, they would be in shadow a lot of the time.
|
In Goro Tamai's,'The Leading Edge',one of the winning strategies for the solar racers,was to charge the car with an off-the-car array,then just race off of battery power,cutting frontal area,weight,and drag to the bone.
The only hitch was cloud cover during scheduled charging,which would be completely mitigated with a grid-tie PV system.