As far as I know the Xof1 car still holds the long distance record, at 35,000 km. Canadian Marcelo Da Luz and numerous volunteers and helpers built a purely solar powered car and drove it all over the U. S. and Canada beginning in 2008. Marcelo drove it from Niagara Falls to Chicago, Bemidji, Winnepeg, Moose Jaw, Edmonton, Dawson City, Inuvik (the furthest north one can go on a road), Anchorage, Whitehorse, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Key West, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh. It retraced its earlier journey back to the Arctic Circle and Inuvik again, in August 2009.
The car was very aerodynamic, was quite uncomfortable, weighed 460 pounds, carried 960 watts of PV and approximately 4kWh of Kokams lithium ion batteries. The body tilted up on struts for charging while stopped. It traveled 300 miles one sunny day, and even 130 miles at night. Top speed was 75 mph. Its consumption was 25 Wh per mile, more than ten times my own EV’s efficiency. Marcelo never charged from the grid. Curiously, the province of Ontario where Marcelo lives, prohibited solar cars at the time; maybe it still does. More information is at xof1.com. -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/What-is-needed-to-build-a-successful-practical-solar-vehicle-tp4673799p4673831.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
