How do you make a solar-powered car go 100 MPH? First, make it light. Second, give it a powerful electric motor. And third, find an open road. That is the strategy, albeit, greatly simplified, of the Wrexham University, Wales, UK, solar car NOSGrawrII. The car weighs a mere 465 pounds, which is about on par [...]
It doesn’t look like like something you’d see in a car dealership showroom, or even something that would be stable enough to drive over the most modest pothole, but the solar-powered Eleanor can hit 90 mph, has enough battery power to make it from New York to Boston without the sun to recharge it, and [...]
Back in March, we got our first look at the Koenigsegg Quant, a concept vehicle from the Swedish supercar developer that used a pyrite (a.k.a. Fool’s Gold) solar panel design that increased energy conversion levels. The Quant was estimated to have a 300 mile battery range, and that the batteries would only take a half [...]
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