08-20-2018, 10:34 AM
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The car seen so far is a 'disguised' BMW i3.
If it goes into production they'll have to essentially replace everything underneath that body kit.
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08-20-2018, 01:03 PM
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Niki Gordon Bloomfield clarified / corrected the $18,000 price - you have to pay more to buy or rent the battery.
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08-21-2018, 01:31 AM
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So — Batteries not included
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08-21-2018, 11:51 PM
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Solar on a vehicle is dumb.
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08-22-2018, 12:22 PM
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Solar cells on the car will help about 5-10%, which is not nothing. If they can charge while the car is parked, they can help more.
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08-22-2018, 01:50 PM
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Solar cells on the car will help about 5-10%, which is not nothing. If they can charge while the car is parked, they can help more.
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It's not nothing, but it's still dumb.
The solar panels would be more effective installed on the roof of a house, preferably in Arizona. Encouraging a car owner to leave their car in the sun is dumb. The expense of solar and the poor results of mounting it to a vehicle is dumb.
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08-23-2018, 01:12 AM
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Encouraging a car owner to leave their car in the sun is dumb. The expense of solar and the poor results of mounting it to a vehicle is dumb.
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Considering that it would then most likely have to resort to that very same solar energy to run the A/C in order to keep a comfortable temperature, it would basically neglect the claimed benefits of having the solar panels. But I'm still not totally disfavorable to the fitment of solar panels to a car, as long as it spends a lot of time outside instead of being babied at a garage. Well, in a lot of places it's not uncommon to leave the vehicles parked outside... |
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09-08-2018, 03:14 PM
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A test drive with the prototype
Dutch, sorry for that.
https://www.nu.nl/246023/video/eerst...nnecellen.html
Excerpts from the video:
The solar cells add up to 30 km of range per day.
Total range is about 250 reallife km.
Top speed is 140 km/h (85 mph)
Acceleration 0-100 km/h: 9 seconds
Available options: - (e.g.: None. Yes.)
Price: € 16,000 + € 4,000 for the battery.
The green stuff in the dash is live Icelandic moss, which acts as an interior air filter. Ow yeah.
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09-08-2018, 04:17 PM
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09-08-2018, 04:30 PM
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I could live with Islandic moss (as long as it can live with me that is)
The Mercedes Maybach Concepts tape worm aquarium - not so much.
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