Are Solar Powered Cars the Future?

[nadeem5476]

all is to do is to make solar panels efficient and low cost.

[soapshouse]

yes

[MrSyntheticDesign]

ive often thought that if you put an ultraviolet light on a solar panel and the panel generates enough power to keep the lamp on and plus some... thats Unlimmited energy

[nadeem5476]

@MrSyntheticDesign that would b Over Unity and its not possible as per law (so far) .

[bigrobnz]

Cheap!! shood pay itself off in a few 100 decades or so!!!

[Forest355]

Solar powered cars! Now that is awesome!!

[TronixGuy93]

I dont think solar powered cars are the future, at least not while the OPEC and energy lobbies have any say. Every car will burn and waste some sort of sludge they can convince you you need to buy at a ridiculously high price. The transportation of the future is going to be human powered. After a devastating Religipolitical war, we will be left with very little if anything for thousands of years.

[william69952]

yeah , what if you need to go somewhere at night , huh ?

[TheJASM4collection]

@william69952 That's the great thing about solar energy. It gets stored into a generator.

[william69952]

@TheJASM4collection the bad thing about generators , is that they can run out of energy very fast , or very slow

[banzaigtv2]

Cost of a Big Mac value meal at McDonald's in 2012: $8

Average cost to fill up a sedan with unleaded gasoline in 2012: $120

Cost of a 1600p HDTV : $5000

Cost of a Lamborghini Reventón running on solar energy at infinite mpg: priceless

[TronixGuy93]

@banzaigtv2 Cost of a BigMac (any time): 1 cow, 2 slices of bread, and 15 minutes of manpower.

Average cost to fill up a sedan with unleaded gasoline, 5 minutes.

Cost of a 1600p HDTV: One Machine, a few hours and a delivery later.

Cost of a Lamborghini running on solar energy at infinite mpg: not gonna happen any time in the near future for the masses.

[bykashka75]

it doesn't make sense how on earth it so xpensive

[701983]

I agree with HotOnYourTrail on the top.

And: These ultralight-cars need not much more power for propulsion than a bicycle.

You can´t compare them with real cars with a mass of more than 1000 kg.

Maybe, the cars of the future should loose weight? But that´s another story...

[soapshouse]

i have a better idea  email me at soapshouse@yahoo.com

[leenguini]

@soapshouse i already did sir

[soapshouse]

@leenguini whats the rpm of the car tires? 1 to 5 tyres with light weight to the car with low speed permanent magnet generators so when the car is moving this tires are just touching the road and they will generate electricity to charge the batteries this way u can go a long way. add a bernualli principle vertical low speed turbine so that that turbine will also generate electricity to charge the battery

[bykashka75]

@soapshouse 4000 RPM on the Tyres

[soapshouse]

@bykashka75 use small wheels fix to the front and back of the car and side also to the car just sitting with permanent magnet low speed alternators that will generate electricity while the car is moving and i will design a bernorilli principle alternator for u light weight. interested let me know and how do i get in touch with u? my skype : soapshouse. yahoo messenger soapshouse@yahoo.com once this car is reaady with all this BINGO ur in business buddy

[soapshouse]

@leenguini u did answer yet if this is a good idea

[khalidkhancricket]

thanx helped me on my esay

[TheFirstAngloSaxon]

solar panels are the past my friends Thermal antenna is where its @ still waiting to be put into production it can produce insane amounts of power per inch

[auhey]

very good for climate change



[elradiuzi]

Great! Now lets work on that $700,000 price tag ;)

[amberjacksolar]

This is phenomenal! Solar power is really soaring high!

[eastern2western]

eletric cars will be better option, as long as it uses electricity from solar generators and panels which is the same as a solar car. those solars are just too fugly for it to work

[captjames5]

Why is there a mileage limit when it's solar powered? Strange.

[TeslaCoilArbiter]

@captjames5

before servicing

[wtfjaftw]

lol who needs solar cars when you have a car that runs on weed

[mquiroz90]

solar power is not about the sun its about working it and getting it done well

[UkrainianShinobi]

@mquiroz90 lol did you realize what you just said?

[rodolfosevero007]

@UkrainianShinobi ahahah the guy is probably high..

[FireyFiringFire]

700k for the car or the solar panel on top of it?

[fatturdburger]

Not when its a cloudy day

[fatturdburger]

Not when its a cloudy day

[ikuto519]

you know now we pollute the earth with gas and destroying the ozone but also gas is exspensive and soon gas will run out and we wont have it anymore so solar power is a good idea.

[350z350zify]

@ikuto519 what if its cloudy?

[TeslaCoilArbiter]

@350z350zify

there are new solar cells being developed that work off of deep infra-reds to violet wavelengths, they work on any days, unless its really cold and dark

[NickBlackDIN]

@TeslaCoilArbiter your talking about nanoantennas and the only time they don't work is 0K which is impossible to reach. the only problem is that we don't have a rectifier for it yet, but were close with MIM diodes.

[thegreatkoua]

that is more then with everything i have

[TheAdler83]

They'd need to make solar cells far more efficient at converting to useful power than what they currently are and then there are other hurdles to overcome with regard to performance ..still it's a start but a long way to go..could be a matter of keep walking until you reach the horizon perhaps?

[DarthCormac]

The affordable, efficient solar powered car will have some pretty stiff competition from the flying pig, which will debut in the same year.

[Matthewkingsvideos]

i'm willing to give off $100,000 if i can get a solar powered JEEP.

[Dewbie22]

it was 700K for an ugly ass car, ur not gonna find a jeep-looking solar car for 100K. It'd cost millions, ted.

get reeeeeeeeeal

[flamifer]

It is exactly this kind of videos that are doing damage to the real electric car industry by reducing electric powered cars to mere superexpensive toys. This is the data of a real electric powered car: Size: average size of a family vehicle. Costs: around $ 8000 range: 600 km maximum speed: 180 km/h (or more if you want). Fuel costs: equivalent of 2,5 l/100km Refilling time: 2 minutes. Impossible? Look up: "ultra capacitors" and "nanosolar"

[Duboisi]

Not really. They have little in common with an ordinary car, but the same can be said about formal 1 cars.

[marcelito69bis]

can you please provide url?

mbenitez01 at gmaildotcom

[CapitanoGUC]

elektrical cars will be the future (see Opel Ampera) and the solar panals could helb to recharge the batteries - but you still will have to plug it, once a while ........

[HOLLYWOODGirls321]

I saw one yesterday on the road it was awesome

[kaje01]

Well that's a lot of performance there for the money. Though it does NOT cost $700k to get that many solar panels. Maybe back in 2008 to get them all specially formed like that it was expensive, but today you could get the same number of panels (flat) for under $1k.

[jfielhauer]

$1,000 doesn't get you very efficient panels.

[EUROSUN1]

Your wrong there. These cars use triple junction solar panels. They are extremely expensive. They give much higher performance then standard Photovoltaics that you mention. They are used mainly for satellite`s but are used on these cars because they take part in the Australian World Solar Challenge. They are mostly paid for by Universities and Businesses to promote there Brands and Institutions. The Dutch Solar team of the University of Delft has won the World Solar Challenge 4 times in a row.

[CmdrTobs]

yeah, that expense was largely cause of the specially formed aero dynamic panels. Though high efficiency panels are very expensive...

[BerkeleyBayArea510]

can i borrow 700,000 dollers? anyone? I wonder how much gas i could get for my REGULAR CAR with that kinda money...

[lejink]

LOL no doubt right.. if i had 700k to blow on a car it definetly wouldnt be that one!

[iPodTouch2GEasyHelp]

it isnt about the gas its about the enviroment

[stonerj0e]

stop breathing(CO2) and farting(Methane) if your'e about the environment ! OK ?

[lifelovingdude]

solar power is good, but there should be another type of engine to make it go at night.

[EricTheRed03]

Solar panel should charge the batteries for night.

[SaraATH2]

they use fuel cells

[DCaple0013]

GR8 ENGLISH!

[SaraATH2]

lol they r french canadien

[yanlapanic]

yes .

[HotOnYourTrail]

i definitely think that solar power is the way to go, but not for how they're using it. they're using the solar panels in a series to directly power the electric engine. the ideal way of the future would be to take a fully-electric battery-powered vehicle, and make the roof and hood out of solar panels, which will recharge the batteries as you drive/let it sit. because it wouldnt be directly powering the vehicle, you wouldnt need such high-powered solar panels. thus costing MUCH less than this.

[rocketman768]

@HotOnYourTrail The problem is that these cars have to be extremely light weight so that the tiny amount of solar energy they receive can propel them to a normal speed. Batteries are REALLY HEAVY compared to the rest of one of these cars. Add batteries, a real car frame and body, and you just don't gain much by having solar cells attached to the roof of the car.

[bolives]

Neat.  Very neat.

[imhoturknot1]

thats pretty kool