Ah, but then we get into beefier side panels, airbags, and other crashworthy items the market now requires. Not that it can't be done with modern lightweight materials and all, but these either raise the mass or the cost...
Cal Frye > Lawrence Rhodes via EV <mailto:[email protected]> > September 22, 2015 at 8:28 PM > You are still thinking 3000 pound conversions. Cut the weight and cut > the battery weight. Get good aerodynamics. I bet Clouds Dolphin would > do great with a 1kw of solar. Imagine it at 1500 pounds with a small > pack. Just do the math. It's all about the numbers. The lighter the > vehicle the more sense solar on the car makes. I've even seen VW buses > done over and for a specific mission that works. It's about 8 miles a > day. The guy never plugs in. Works for him. So if you have a 2000 > pound car instead of 55wh per mile it might be 150wh per mile Range. > 20 kw pack 600 watt solar panels...do the math. Brings it down to 200 > mile range and 33 hours to charge. Lets divide 200 by 33. That is 6 > miles of range per hour of sitting in the sun. Starting to get > interesting? For some people that is enough and you would never need > to plug in...but you could if needed. Somehow Stella and Stella Lux > get very good CD with their custom roofs full of cells. A CD of .16. > Plenty good. > So if the manufacturers would make something like the tear drop German > cars of the 30's you might have something. 50 miles of gain per day is > great and many people could live on that number for their commute. > Stop thinking Nissan Leaf and more like the I3 squished down. Remember > if you use bad CD like the Leaf and heavy weight solar makes no sense. > You must have a light aero vehicle. Lawrence Rhodes...I lease a Leaf > and it's great but it's so 20th Century...It's the same kind of > vehicle as a Rav4 EV or the Honda EV Plus...Look at what aero did for > the EV 1 and you can see every little bit helps until it's in the ball > park and working. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlorwagen > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2767806/Meet-Stella-solar-powered-car-drives-500-miles-SINGLE-charge-warns-traffic-lights-change.html > http://www.evalbum.com/3242 Dave Clouds Dolphin. It's gutted and only > weighs 1200 pounds without batteries. 1980 pounds in battery weight. > This is the vehicle to make solar. It might do better than my numbers. > A lot better...but then someone would have to do it.... > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150923/da76b39b/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
