Solar Powered Quadricycle!

The first test run of a solar powered quadricycle.

The quadricycle was built by Charles Oravec, Lab Supervisor & Electronics Tech for the Occidental College Physics Department and Awot Ghirmai.

It has four car batteries, which are charged using a solar panel. It is driven by two electronic motors, one in each front wheel.

Also present at the testing were: Jean-Luc Gauvreau, Post-Doctoral Fellow and Steve Sadler, a PhD student at the University of Sheffield, UK.

The bike was created as a summer exercise.

Video by Marc Campos
Music by Kevin MacLeod

Category:

Education

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• quadricycle
• Occidental College
• Oxy
• physics
• solar
• solar power
• Eagle Rock
• energy
• solar powered bike
• solar powered

[mamaxwell]

Where is the quadricycle from? Did you manufacture or retrofit the quad? If you bought it made, who manufactured it? Thanks.

Loved the video.

[OccidentalCollege]

@mamaxwell I don't know the manufacturer. The frame was left over from a different project and was originally a standard pedal-crank-chain assembly, which means it was a bit heavy for our purposes, but still works. Thanks for watching!

[inagod]

the camber on the front wheels is your problem,make sure the 4 wheels are square,left to right frontright and vice versa, and front to back should be same mearsurement.

[OccidentalCollege]

@inagod This was the very first test run and he worked out the problems after this video was made. Thanks for the tips!

[RailbirdFilms]

I don't care if it is a hazard. I want it. I want it badly. ☺☻

[hydrolito]

@inagod Advanced civilizations would not live in a black hole at it crushes things with super gravity. It's not actually a whole it is super dense matter that gravity is so strong no light reflects off it but is trapped making it look black.

[inagod]

just take a level put it against the two front tires,center ,ground to top of tire,make it 0deg,tire exactly straight,then measure back to back at rear of front tires and front to front make exactly same,you could add a 1/8 inch to rear making fronts toe in a little.The alignment will make it roll with little resistance,increasing range,speed and handling.Now back to my question,could advanced civilizations live in black holes,is it a portal to another time and space?