Electric cars are now obsolete .

AdrianC

Bigphil1474 said:

Whilst I don't agree with the OP, you all seem to be falling into the same old trap. Yes, current solar panel tech would make it impossible to have a working usable solar powered car, but that might change. Imagine if they could turn the whole car into a solar power absorption system that could recharge batteries that were also built into the body of the car and could store a weeks worth or more of required energy.

You mean something like this...?

Due to go into production later this year, first customer deliveries next year.

 https://sonomotors.com/en/sion/

Grumpy_chap

Bigphil1474 said:

Whilst I don't agree with the OP, you all seem to be falling into the same old trap. Yes, current solar panel tech would make it impossible to have a working usable solar powered car, but that might change. Imagine if they could turn the whole car into a solar power absorption system that could recharge batteries that were also built into the body of the car and could store a weeks worth or more of required energy. Maybe they could be used to feed back into the electricity network - you plug your car in at work, during the day it recharges the car and any excess goes back into the network earning you a few pence, offsetting any night time charges. Combining solar recharging with plug in recharging might be the difference for people who need long range electric cars. Could be the future. On the other hand, if we diverged the economy into large scale hamster breeding, we could all have hamster powered cars. Might cost a bit on the food side.

Limiting factors are the physical area of the car body and the energy release from the sun per square metre.  Then efficiency needs to be considered.  I doubt it can be made to work as suggested.

Ganga

Grumpy_chap said:

Bigphil1474 said:

Whilst I don't agree with the OP, you all seem to be falling into the same old trap. Yes, current solar panel tech would make it impossible to have a working usable solar powered car, but that might change. Imagine if they could turn the whole car into a solar power absorption system that could recharge batteries that were also built into the body of the car and could store a weeks worth or more of required energy. Maybe they could be used to feed back into the electricity network - you plug your car in at work, during the day it recharges the car and any excess goes back into the network earning you a few pence, offsetting any night time charges. Combining solar recharging with plug in recharging might be the difference for people who need long range electric cars. Could be the future. On the other hand, if we diverged the economy into large scale hamster breeding, we could all have hamster powered cars. Might cost a bit on the food side.

Limiting factors are the physical area of the car body and the energy release from the sun per square metre.  Then efficiency needs to be considered.  I doubt it can be made to work as suggested.

Also i doubt we could breed large enough hamsters and in sufficient numbers

Grumpy_chap

Ganga said:

Also i doubt we could breed large enough hamsters and in sufficient numbers

Who needs hamsters when you can get some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to just push the car?

sheramber

Stubod said:

sheramber said:

or in winter up north where any sun is so low in the sky solar power lights don't work for a couple of months.

..but to compensate you get a lot of wind...could you not attach sails.....it worked for Nelson?

Two years ago we had over a month of no wind over the whole area and no windmills turning.

motorguy

I used to come on here loads - click bait nonsensical threads like this remind me why i dont now.  

greatcrested

Bigphil1474 said:

..... On the other hand, if we diverged the economy into large scale hamster breeding, we could all have hamster powered cars. Might cost a bit on the food side.

On the contrary. Once the hamsters had worn out their little legs they'd make a nice stew, actually saving you money on the food side.