Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 22:16:26 -0500 From: "EVDL Administrator" On 3 Mar 2021 at 23:22, Lawrence Rhodes via EV wrote:
> https://solarteameindhoven.nl/stellafamily/ I've mentioned these vehicles > before. ✓Sounds like a fantastic future, but don't hold your breath. No breath holding needed. These are in service and have made numerous trips across Australia and many more in Europe. √The Stella Lux has less than 6 square meters of PV, and the Stella Vie has less than 5 square meters. They're a fascinating dream, but I can't see them as commercially viable vehicles. Same said of Tesla. They figured out the engineering. √The Lightyear is closer to viable. In fact, it's supposed to go on sale later this year. It will cost 150,000 euros (US$180,000) and will have ... 5 square meters of PV. Viable? For the rich. √You can't put a Lightyear on a sunny road and drive it at 65mph without ever plugging it in. Its PV is strictly for range exension. That 5 square meters just isn't enough for the car's level of energy efficiency. But will the same footprint and more efficiency the Stella vehicles can do 45 mph infinitely. On trips longer than 600 miles they too would have to be plugged in but not under normal use. Here is a comparison of existing vehicles and there efficiency. It is clear that even the makers of Lightyear isn't using their own data since they were the students that made the original Stella. They still have a hood and windshield. The vehicle must be teardrop shaped and without this the design will be crippled. https://images.app.goo.gl/eswJCdPuqeZcVToV7 Lawrence Rhodes All vehicles shown exist. Making a prototype is easy mass production is hard but not impossible to all you Negative Nellie's. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210304/4664511f/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
