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Originally Posted by redpoint5
1000 mile range means it was overbuilt.
It's not that it doesn't work, it's that it costs too much compared to alternatives that accomplish the same task.
... and races are for entertainment, not a demonstration of useful products for consumers.
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Costs too much? We won't know until it's finally been released (or not) and if it sells (or not). A lot of people seem to like to have some overkill. Some people even like to have too much overkill.
The point was that if one day you get 1 mile of solar and two days you get about 60 it all averages out to around 40 miles per day. The bigger the battery the less a specific day's weather matters.
So what does it matter if you get a few days of bad weather if your car has considerably more than 40 miles of range, assuming you don't need a battery that's always topped off every morning??
Race cars follow the same rules of physics as other cars, just on the overbuilt side of things. The point is that they move with solar energy from integrated solar panels. Sure, I don't expect to go 80mph all day long in an Aptera.
But why is an average of 40 miles per day on an average place on Earth considered so "impractical" or even "impossible?"