More than likely the cost to produce a car like that would be astronomical. Just wouldn’t be worth it to car manufactures to make it. Not to mention the amount of tax money the government would lose due to not having comsumers puchasing gasoline.
You can. Solar powered trickle chargers for a lead acid battery can be found at any spare parts dealer. A lot of 4×4 drivers use them to keep batteries charged while parked up and to be able to use car fridges without having to run their motor to keep up charge.All so there is a race ? across Australia Nth to Sth for solar powered cars.The only hold up to electric cars is the people that build them. (See “Who killed the electric car”)
Even if you could harness the entire power of the sun in the brightest part of the world over the entire surface area of your car, it would make almost no difference to the operation of a hybrid or electric car. If you want to buy solar cells to combat AGW, put them on your house where you have more surface area, therefore can produce more electricity and anyone in the country can use it, paying you.
BTW, what are “slow-release capacitors?” I teach Basic Electricity and I’ve never heard of them, the discharge rate of a capacitor is only dependent on the resistance value and the capactiance value. And batteries can store WAY more energy for the size.
If it was as easy as you are suggesting, it would have been done already.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:29 am
because we need to improve hamburger quality first
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 am
You can but the solar cells just are not that powerful to help much.
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Three reasons:
1) Inefficiency. They just don’t produce that much power.
2) Not cost effective.
3) Inconsistency. The sun is not always out.
May 4th, 2009 at 12:42 am
More than likely the cost to produce a car like that would be astronomical. Just wouldn’t be worth it to car manufactures to make it. Not to mention the amount of tax money the government would lose due to not having comsumers puchasing gasoline.
May 4th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
You can. Solar powered trickle chargers for a lead acid battery can be found at any spare parts dealer. A lot of 4×4 drivers use them to keep batteries charged while parked up and to be able to use car fridges without having to run their motor to keep up charge.All so there is a race ? across Australia Nth to Sth for solar powered cars.The only hold up to electric cars is the people that build them. (See “Who killed the electric car”)
May 6th, 2009 at 10:09 am
The ZAP-X design contains nano solar cells.
May 8th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Even if you could harness the entire power of the sun in the brightest part of the world over the entire surface area of your car, it would make almost no difference to the operation of a hybrid or electric car. If you want to buy solar cells to combat AGW, put them on your house where you have more surface area, therefore can produce more electricity and anyone in the country can use it, paying you.
BTW, what are “slow-release capacitors?” I teach Basic Electricity and I’ve never heard of them, the discharge rate of a capacitor is only dependent on the resistance value and the capactiance value. And batteries can store WAY more energy for the size.
If it was as easy as you are suggesting, it would have been done already.