From: Ryan FulcherI'm looking forward to being finally proven wrong about the practicality of PV on your EV when the Aptera starts being delivered...
For a decade the Eindhoven Solar team has 4 cars win the World Solar Challenge and an RV for proof of concept that solar vehicles work. However the Aptera is not properly shaped to place a 1.5kw solar panel anywhere. The trick is to have have your aerodynamics in side view. The squished tadpole design gives a large flat surface on top for lots of panels. The Aptera is a great stand alone EV, however not my idea of a solar design. Solar vehicles must be engineered from the ground up. Solar panels on the Aptera are an afterthought. I am not talking about the rolling Ping-Pong tables you may have seen. Actual 5 passenger vehicles with a trunk. We now have the materials to make the engineering work. Lawrence Rhodes solarteameindhoven.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20230708/76d81ec1/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
