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Many manufacturers are going into production or creating concepts with integrated solar panels in the roof or body of the car.
Although under normal use this will not provide all the vehicles power it will make a significant contribution when you factor in the decreasing cost of solar panels and the rising cost of fossil fuel.
Here are some examples:
Solar Toyota Prius:
http://www.solarelectricalvehicles.com/
Fisker Karma:
http://www.fiskerautomotive.com/
Saab 9 X concept:
http://www.saab.com/main/GLOBAL/en/9X_biohybrid/index.shtml
BMW concept with solar roof:
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-officially-official-the-bmw-vision-efficientdynamic/
Ford Reflex concept:
http://www.automobilemag.com/auto_shows/naias_2006/0601_ford_reflex_concept/index.html
Giugiaro Quantara concept:
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/05/geneva-2008-italdesign-giugiaro-quantara-oddity/
and many more…
The Fisker Karma can already be ordered from the Fisker website – the first ones are scheduled for delivery in 2009.
The music theme is called ’sunshine’.
The wattage of the average car roof panel is around 250 watts. If you covered the entire car in solar film or panels you would get around 1000 watts or more.
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John Lennon in a song: no problems, only solutions. A Roman Caesar said this a few thousand years back too. As they vomited their way back from their orgies, so as to rise like a Phoenix to eat yet some more back at their suburbs, they died alot and got stupid from the lead poison in their drinking water pipes, as their hired legions marched back victorious in foreign wars to a greeting by the Huns, Visigoths and Vandals who had awaited in the cities to there slaughter them all real good.
yep, no future in …
yep, no future in solar, since the oil and mining digging-in-the-dirt-only-is-good corps. have proven this by hundreds of $million$ of PR.
meanwhile they say up is down, freedom is slavery, war is peace, Greenland’s ice cap ain’t melting, the North Pole expeditions will come again soon, father knows best ’cause he sold insurance, as did Beaver’s dad. AIG is the globalization King of the Universe!
or aint’ it. duhhhhhhhhhhwheee…duh duh duh duh, chitty chitty bangarooooo
I saw designs of …
I saw designs of fusion reactors that look so impressive I wanted to donate money to the company that had it on their site.
And therein lies the magic. Take something that sounds plausible, draw some pretty looking pictures of it, throw in a few snazzy looking equations to fool the layman, and the donations will pour in.
Solar cars are the “new fusion”. The industry can’t turn a profit, and will only last as long as the subsidies from the govt. flow in.
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Floating solar …
Floating solar power can also be the next generation of earning money. And a home/house at the same time .
0:50 i hope this is …
0:50 i hope this is just charging cos i dont think you will see this bike cutting through traffic lol
Incorporating solar …
Incorporating solar into car ports, roofs, driveways, parking lots and roads seems like the perfect solution for generating power especially for transportation. Using it on vehicles roofs can power electronics in a vehicle but not the vehicle itself.
Why will costs come …
Why will costs come down? Do not believe that myth! Texaco bout out Ovionics which makes thin film solar cells, with that in mind was it done to get us cheaper prices? NO!! Solar, batteries and electric is the new oil! The big players will swallow up every maker of cheap stuff so that they can sell it to us at oil prices. Get a brain cell overhaul! Just because the nature of cars will change it does not mean the game has changed
With cars btw it …
With cars btw it will be about battery capacity and life. That’s where we need the improvement. We can already reliably get 100+ miles per charge. Batteries WILL get better. Costs WILL come down.
Solar thermal won’t …
Solar thermal won’t work because it has to be concentrated on new land. The environmentalists won’t let this happen. The only way solar power will work is if you put it on your roof and on your current property. Use the land you already have. This will mean we don’t have to put them in wildlife sanctaries. We won’t have to eat up new land to power our homes. That’s the beauty of solar power. You can put it anywhere!
He’s right, there’s …
He’s right, there’s not enough surface area on a car for this to work very well. On the other hand, it would help! The real place to put the solar film of the future will be at home. Cities will coat their buildings with it. Nanotechnology and new materials will bring production costs down to a affordable level. With solar power it will be about putting the films everywhere, not about concentrating it in one small place. Gotta think big and non-centralized – that’s what solar power will be.
Anothercoilgun, …
Anothercoilgun, even at 100% efficiency (the max) there is not enough power from sunlight falling on the surface of the car over an 8 hour period to charge the battery even 1% of what it would take to move the car 40 miles. Wake up and get some education.
The efficiency of …
The efficiency of cells will grow when nano and multi layering kicks in. The cells need not directly power the car but for sure can charge it while sitting idle. People only drive an hour or two while their cars get super hot sitting in free sunlight 8+ hours a day. Well in Cali anyway.
Hahaha nice one. …
Hahaha nice one. As long as Big Oil dominates solar power then solar power will be then dominate power.
Be smart – don’t …
Be smart – don’t pay any more electricity bills. more info: solar.xfollow.me (Copy to your browser’s address bar)
15 years is a bit …
15 years is a bit short to take al gas cars of the way.
i think it wil be in about 25 years.
Actually, All we …
Actually, All we have is solar power. All power is solar power. The further you get from taking it directly from the sun, the more loss you have. 15 years from now we will look at gas-fueled cars and wonder how we ever used them. Smoking, noisy, un-reliable and about 22% efficient. All vehicles will be electric. The cities will be quiet and the air clean.
It doesn’t matter what Joe Q. Public says or thinks. You’ll drive the electric vehicles we design for you , or you can ride a horse. Done..
There is not enough …
There is not enough surface area to power a normal car.
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Be smart – don’t pay any more electricity bills. more info: solar.xfollow.me (Copy to your browser’s address bar)
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the wings of a …
the wings of a glider has a lot of unused surface area to mount solar panels. Also, you wouldn’t go soaring on cloudy, rainy days anyway so it makes perfect sense to put solar panels on the wings of a glider.
there are some designs out there already. Do a google search for “Solar Plane Set to Soar” for pictures of one
I agree.
That …
I agree.
That 1930s worlds fair that promised video telephones will never happen either and I have always said that if man where meant to fly god would have given him wings…
Whats that? Really?
umm maybe this solar car thing might just happen one day too:-)
P.S. photovoltaic panels emerged in labs in the 50’s and 60’s – about the same time the internet was getting started
solarpower has been …
solarpower has been taking off as long as the electric motor or even longer but people have not been taking an interest in it entil now
Solar power will …
Solar power will never take off. This is a Corporations nightmare. How long have we had solar power? 100 years?
NEW Batteries …
NEW Batteries Lithium Titanate can be charged in 5 minutes, life 10 to 20 years, cycles 6000 to 9000, no runaway, no explosion, no problem at high and low temperatures.
See: -Altair USA Nanosafe and -Toshiba Japan SCiB.
Lol how can u have …
Lol how can u have solar pannels on a glider?
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