Solar Car

[alkecom]

cargohopper is the first solar electric vehicle 4x4

[WarblesOnALot]

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[codewalters]

For a solar car . Would the power from the solar panels be used to drive the motor directly or would it be stored in a battery

[lofhy]

@codewalters you'd probably like have to let it be there for 2 hours in the sun before you could drive.

[klickkzam]

ugly , but  impressive

[klickkzam]

ugly , but impressive

[nicesocialgirl]

how fast does it go

[treverbettis]

try putting 5 people and 10 shopping bags in that car. ohh wait its a golf cart.

[gunit8590]

with anorganic nano solar cells

u stick a solar foil on the roof of your car

[TheNeonTide]

fire extinguishers?

[SpiritsoftheWolf]

@TheNeonTide, in case of electrical fire

[shit311]

teacher teacher where can i buy that huge ipad?

[demagetube]

My question is why isn't there photovoltaic paint? Seems the new EV Leaf and EV Focus should be covered with photovoltaic cells, anywhere the sun can shine. We need both battery technology and direct utilization of the sun into electrical energy.

[701983]

@demagetube It would be a waste of expensive photovoltaic cells. They would earn much more energy on the roof of a house: Always under the open sky. Placed in an effecient angle to the sun.

And: It would be a high effort for just little benefit. A Nissan Leaf with 1 m² solar cells would get enough energy for about 3 miles. On a sunny day in summer.

And: Cooling costs a lot of energy. Parking in the shadow is probably better than standing in the sun, then cooling the car with battery power.

[JRBeaman]

AWESOME!



[amberjacksolar]

Thank you for sharing this video. Kudos to you for your efforts!

[nimeshpithwa]

I am a Mechanical Engineering student in India, I have been working on Solar car project since many days. I would like to get some technical info regarding your design if possible, which may help me to execute my project.

Once again Congratulations!

nimeshpithwa@gmail.com

[TheShawnow]

so nice

[MrSuperSpyguy]

LOL

[davidam60]

fail to drive, ur underage XD

[sirpc2]

We didn't get to know how fast this car could drive... anyway I think this car is amazing, and it's a look into the future...

[fullnonsense1000]

Sir, can you tell me the specifications of the motor used in your solar car.

[plzforgiveme987]

OMG SWEET CAR! i wish i hv the money to do that.... although im only freshie... i still would be able to make one :D i would need sum help.. lol i dunt no everythin bout programin stuff

[chadsokol]

i can't wait to do this years race.

my engineering class is building a car to race from texas to alberta, canada.

[izlude2]

why are solar cars so ugly? god just make it look like a regular car! that's one of the TOP reasons people hate them.

[asport511]

@izlude

there needs to be a very large surface area for the photovoltaic cells, which is why the top of the car is very long and these kind of cells currently do not provide enough energy normal cars that weigh a ton or more. Also, this was clearly a student/professor project that had a tight budget, not something sponsored by Toyota or something with unlimited funding. You should learn more about this stuff, it may very well be the future!

[Kelthoras1]

wrong, the top reason people hate them is the range, which is very small

[ibpointless2]

@Kelthoras1 But they said they can go 100 miles in one day, most people barely go over 40 for their daily driving.

[pentium6xx]

there not as practical as regular cars... its not just looks..

[savagemarty]

oh my god everyone just argues on video comments!! get a life!! who cares if you're right or wrong. just watch the blody video

[deezynar]

Teacher!...Teacher!  I have a question! Who won the race???

[Zenome]

@deezynar I did, I took my commercial jet to New York in 3.5 hours.

[XXunloved752]

if its night time ur fucked ahaha

[Matrex50]

Thats why there are these things called "batteries"...

[5starstunta]

I wonder if the rear sprocket is big enough?

[fuzzywzhe]

I don't get the point of these anymore.

None of these seems to have ever gone through a wind tunnel, none of them are really practical as a motor vehicle, and there are already much better and efficient designs from 30 years ago.

[valhala56]

It may not seem practical, but when your gas powered vehicle is sitting in the weeds a solar power vehicle may be better then nothing.

[fuzzywzhe]

> It may not seem practical, but when your gas

> powered vehicle is sitting in the weeds a

> solar power vehicle may be better then

> nothing.

I'm not complaining about practicality, I'm complaining that it was very poorly designed. I'm an EE, and even I can recognize that no effort was made to make it aerodynamic.

And solar cars would be entirely practical, if the speed limit was 30 and I don't think that's much to give up either. People will never do it willingly though, too short sighted.

[valhala56]

I'm not an engineer but obviously these are school students just showing that cars can be run on solar. I don't think these students have any intention of selling these as ford's or chryslers.

Also how areodynamic is a hummer?

People will be riding mules in a few years if you know anything about peak oil.

Hey do you know where I can get an areodynamic mule?

[fuzzywzhe]

> I'm not an engineer but obviously these are

> school students just showing that cars can be

> run on solar.

These are college students. They ought to be doing a better job than this. Australia has a solar race every year, what I saw here doesn't compete against anything I've seen there since 1980.

And a Hummer is an idiot's car.

[valhala56]

Friend, for Aussie you sure don't get humor, that was my point about the hummer....not aredynamic. So compartively speaking these college or high school students solar car is probaly more areodynamic then a hummer.

This is all academic, because your averge Joe or Jane America really has no idea what Peak Oil is about and what is coming at them like a unstoppable freigt train in the next 10 years.

[fuzzywzhe]

> Friend, for Aussie you sure don't get humor,

> that was my point about the hummer....not

> aredynamic. So compartively speaking

The whole point of a Hummer is to waste energy. That's the whole purpose of it's design.

They met their design goal.

Now, do these solar cars meet their design goal? My point is that they're designed cars like they were first being built.

[valhala56]

Friend your kinda clueless, the Hummer became a brand after Arnold Schwangerr bought one after the 1st Gulf war. This vehicle was perfect for the American Psyche. i.e. A humongus truck which makes a statement, a statement about status, it is similar to the "McMansions" in the suburbs. It was not nessacarily as a goal to waste energy, it is simply a side effect of Americans careless attitude to Peak oil, Global warming, greed, arrogance and just about everything that is not good. You are a geek.

[valhala56]

No wonder a lot of products are crap. You engineers are very stupid. You actually think that the design goal of the Hummer was to burn as much fossil fuel is possible. That is got to be the dumbest statement I have ever read on YouTube.

The design goal was more of a fashion statement, a statement of status, and it just happened to waste a lot of fossil fuels, not that the owners care till now, Now they are trying to get rid of these. What kinda of engineer are you? That is a strange reply.

[fuzzywzhe]

> No wonder a lot of products are crap. You

> engineers are very stupid. You actually

> think that the design goal of the Hummer

> was to burn as much fossil fuel is possible.

> That is got to be the dumbest statement I

> have ever read on YouTube.

Hmm. What do you think the design goal was?

You do realize a hummer on the street has little resemblance to one on a US highway? They're NOT the same vehicle.

It's just a vehicle for morons to make the statement "fuck you, environment!" That's it.

[valhala56]

I done told you. Ok maybe you misunderstood, it was a marketing goal, The hummer appealed to people who wanted to flaunt their status, yeah it's for the same moron's who bought McMansions, the very same concept & waste of energy. People who buy Hummer's & or McMansions are not enviroment haters, they are just stupid ignorant people who have a need to display their status with a humongous vehicle or house which is now a joke that they can't get rid of. we use different verbage for the same idea

[fuzzywzhe]

> I done told you. Ok maybe you misunderstood,

> it was a marketing goal, The hummer appealed

> to people who wanted to flaunt their status,

A hummer has about 400 HP. That's not even in the top 10 of horse power for SUVs. But it gets nearly the worst gas mileage of any vehicle on the road.

Status in our dumb society, is how much you can afford to waste. That's how people measure status here. It's the opposite of frugality. It's that depressingly simple.

[valhala56]

Yeah well I don't know about Oz, but here in Indiana I see SUV's on every street corner with for sale signs on them. I always make a rude comment when I see somebody gassing up their Iron Pig AND I see the Hummer's on eBay going for way less then book. It's Karma man, These people who bought these Iron Pigs got a little cosmic Karma for their arrogant ways!

[valhala56]

You said What do you think the design goal was? Originaly it was from the US military's. And actually it is a great design....for war. US people luv the military & they luv status, after the Terminator got one, it was on. It became a Bling Bling Status vehicle rarely used for off road.

You are looking at it from a pure design/utility viewpoint & are clueless of why people plunked down $50K to buy these iron pigs. These were the pimp caddilacs of the early 21st century, get it?

[fuzzywzhe]

> You said What do you think the design goal

> was? Originaly it was from the US military's.

> And actually it is a great design....for war.

The US military costs more to run and maintain that all the other militaries in all of the world, put together.

And they can't win a war in 2 spitoon countries like Iraq and Afghanistan.

I'm not surprised the Hummer was originally designed for the most wasteful, inept, useless government program ever created on Earth.

[McMajestic992]

well but war makes money...its a waste of money to get more money...and the hummer was originally created for war...its a vehicle that can cross through practically any kind of terrain...it can even climb a rocky hillside with around an inclination of 75 degrees kinda it uses hella lot of fuel...so its only useful in war...

[kleptophobiac]

Actually, this is the Houston Mississippi high school team. You're right, the state of the art in solar cars is considerably beyond this point, but it's not a bad showing for high school.

[xxonelastliex]

Actually, this is a South Florida high school team at South Plantation High School, this was the first car they built in 2006-2007 so it would be old, I can tell you this because I'm on the team and this is not Houston Mississippi

[Wrayn2002]

Can you make it so that the sunlight is focused to split atoms and give it super nuke-jet power??

[JUKIO01]

check who daniel dingel is

[MNORB7]

sorry...but its kinda lame :(

[jmnic63]

What type of motor did you use for your solar car?