Not exactly practical (better to have the panels mounted at home), but many people are interested in stuff like this.
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Not exactly practical (better to have the panels mounted at home), but many people are interested in stuff like this.
I suggest getting a sheet of mylar film printed to look like solar cells and glue it onto the roof of your car. It would be far less expensive than a real solar collector, and everybody who sees it will be impressed with how "green" you are.
Gosh...there's a song lyric there, somewhere...
I'm driving on sunshine, whoaa
and don't it feel good...
Here's a nice conversion:
John Brecher's Destiny 2000
Nice stats on that car, JRP3...
23 horsepower,
0 to 60 in a week and half!
Heater=hair dryer!
Yeah, he needs more voltage, a better controller, and better batteries than flooded lead! I would have skipped the solar panels and put the money into the afore mentioned mods myself, but it's always a compromise on a budget.
By the way, at one point I had a 70 Cougar that I used a 12 volt hair dryer for window defrosting when the fan and heater core went out, so I can't have a problem with that
Obviously the Prius above isn't a terribly effective solution to solar transport. But i propose something a little different. With the new CIGS solar cells of the Nanosolar type, and more particularly the printing method of manufacture, and more specifically the ability to print onto 3 dimensional objects, which whilst possible is not currently used for solar cells. Would it in fact be possible to "paint" the car with CIGS solar panels? I'd like to think so. Is it Viable? Well if someone is going to pay an extra grand for a fancy colour, would they pay an extra say $6k to make that "paint" work for them?
Now lets assume we can get 5 square meters of usable body panels at any one time, and that we get 50W/sqm in america, and say 8 hours of sunlight. That's 2kW per day, or at 200W/mile that's 10 miles free every day. And that's at 15% efficiency, 20% gives 12.5 miles. Now if the Tesla Roadster is a weekend car, then that becomes 70 miles per weekend and no need to ever plug it in.
What do you think?
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