My first EV - my Firefly is on it's 10th year of 100% solar power: http://www.evalbum.com/3432 Yes you can make a solar EV, even cheaply. But don't expect it to go 60 mph for hours. A solar car is pretty impractical by most standards, even my boat would be impractical if I didn;t run it on my small 1.5 mile long lake. But it does work very well for the application, easily the most reliable boat I have owned and can't be beat for fishing off or maneuverability along the rocky shore. Maybe someday panels will improve enough to power a regular road vehicle for some distance for the average joe. The solar cars seen online today simply do not expose the math of solar hours vs distance potentially covered. But maybe there should be some kind of standard measure in case something actually ever does prove useful? Or does something like that exist? Something like miles per solar hour?
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 6:58 PM Peter VanDerWal via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Unfortunately it's not really the automakers fault, it's the lawyers. > > Production vehicles have to meet modern safety standards and I doubt you > could meet those standards using lightweight (read fragile) materials, not > without incuring a great deal of extra costs. > > Even if you went with hand-laid carbon-fiber, imagine what would happen to > it if it got hit broadside by a full size pickup. > > > > > > But you're right; the mainstream automakers - even Tesla - can't seem to > > imagine much of anything but the same big, heavy cars and trucks that > their > > customers are used to filling with gasoline or Diesel fuel. And in fact, > > just as with ICEVs, the trend in production EVs is mostly toward still > > bigger, clumsier SUVs and crossovers. > > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210422/90cd0705/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields 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
