students build record breaking solar elec. car...

[solarguy]

Looking pretty interesting

Students Build Record-Breaking Solar Electric Car > ENGINEERING.com

[Xist]

That is one of the few solar cars I have seen that was almost practical and I certainly like that they are approaching real-life speeds, although most people around here drive eighty on the freeway. However, for their speed test, they are going electric-only, so it is much more of an electric car than a solar one--310-mile range on batteries, 500 on both.

Could you even have a solar car competition without battery packs? Just a small starter battery?

[backpacker3]

Originally Posted by Xist

Could you even have a solar car competition without battery packs? Just a small starter battery?

A solar car with out a battery pack wouldn't be practical in my opinion. A few minutes of dense cloud cover and you'll run out of juice and well you can forget about driving at night.

[gone-ot]

Originally Posted by backpacker3

A solar car with out a battery pack wouldn't be practical in my opinion. A few minutes of dense cloud cover and you'll run out of juice and well you can forget about driving at night.

Yeah, just think how "...the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere..." would've had to have been delayed until sunrise (wink,wink).

[Cobb]

How the hell would they have solar power if electric motors havent been invented yet?

Originally Posted by Old Tele man

Yeah, just think how "...the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere..." would've had to have been delayed until sunrise (wink,wink).

[user removed]

Solar power has been there a lot longer than electric motors.

regards
mech

[Cobb]

I was going to upload photos of my garden, but I get an error the photos are too big and too green or eco for this forum.