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.
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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.
Comments on "Is Solar Power The New Oil?"
Is Solar Power The ... Is Solar Power The New Oil? YESSS IT f**kING ISSS AND? ALWAYS HAS BEEN
Why not have solar ... Why not have solar panels? charge a large battery? When I go to work I leave my car outside in the sunlight anyway. It would be nice to come back to my car to "full tank" lol. And there's no way in hell they'd let me plug my car in either lol.
Electric vehicles ... Electric vehicles only make sense? if you are getting your electricity from a smart source.
A solar power car ... A solar power car it's a really? bad idea... If you are going to use batteries on a car, make sure they are as big as possible, and use solar powered electric plants to power this cars. This way you can make an affordable solar powered electric car for daily use with the present tech.
The cars themselves ... The cars themselves, no matter how light,? consume more power than their surface area could ever provide by solar power alone... unless they sit in the sun, charging for like 20 times longer than it is used. A better choice is to use GaAs (30%) eff solar cells in concentrating arrays, stored in batteries... ALL MACHINE MADE... and build more powerlines (and extra grid components for nasty solar storm events). Then there could be 500,000 sq miles of install jobs...
boat? :D boat? :D
I live in ... I live in Manchester England , rains all the? time!!!!!!!!!!! What will i drive to work in?
Santa? Clause ... Santa? Clause certainly won't use it
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yea its not gonna ... yea its not gonna work in? ireland...
I really like this ... I really like this design.? Best of any solar car I've seen.
And, yes - *I*? ... And, yes - *I*? have relevant degrees: BChE (Bachelor of Chemical Engineering)
MS and PhD (Mathematics)
A.S. (Associate of Science in Biotechnology)
And I have published peer-reviewed math papers.
In other words, the ... In other words, the Second Law of Thermodynamics GUARANTEES THAT WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THE SAME? LEVEL OF PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION AND LIFESTYLE THAT WE ARE ACCUSTOMED TO. (Unless we also reduce world population at a rate proportional to per capita consumption by mandatory birth control (mandatory vasectomies), which I have advocated since 1970s.)
Hence, better to conserve, go solar and wind, and NOT waste colossal energy on boondoggles like nuclear and tar sands.
That's what wind ... That's what wind power is for. And reduced consumption.
Our one-time lottery ticket with oil is about used up. Coal is the #1 contributor to global warming.
All the electricity in the world (from ANY source: nuclear, coal, etc) won't do any good powering? non-existent electric cars, airplanes, and boats.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics guarantees that creating ANY concentrated form of energy, such as nuclear, will cause greater DISORDER outside that local system (reactor).
"Studied EE and ... "Studied EE and Physics"..obviously did not graduate..They make things called batteries which can actually store electrical power for use at night- it's amazing! Solar wont solve all out energy problems, but adding? it to a diverse package of power sources will insure the stability of our supply. People have just eaten the FOX narrative from the oil companies- that solar is a marginal technology. Your TV and the ISS space station would not work if it were not for solar. The truth is always scary!
I studied Physics ... I studied Physics and Electrical Engineering and got 2 Degrees before Fox News was on the air. I've given you the facts but you prefer to live in the fantasy world. That's OK but people like you are dangerous What to you do to power a vehicle at night? Give me an answer. What do you do in winter when you have cold weather, short days, and long winter nights. Even if solar panels were 100% efficient it wouldn't solve the transportation problems. Altogether? solar contributes less than 1%.
Stop eating Fox ... Stop eating Fox news BS and you might free yourself from being their wage slave. Electric transportation works by charging at home or at a parking meter etc. If? I told you solar power made large quantities of the most posionous substance on earth and it will kill civilizations on earth 10,000 years from now, you'd have some real ammo against it. Sadly, that's nuclear power -the most arrogant disregard for human life there is. Solar works perfectly. It's Exxon's nightmare, not yours.
You've been mis- ... You've been mis-informed. There is no arsenic in PV panels..and they last for? 50+ years. I have ones from the Carter Administration time (on the roof 35 years) and they are powering this laptop. The only thing solar panels do is threaten an endangered species, your monthly bill. Once the Oil companies manufacture solar panels, they will lease a system to you and you can keep paying your monthly bill.
Great comment! I ... Great comment! I did my? part this week. Got over my great fear of giving up my car and purchased ($1584) an electric-assist tricycle, which will serve as my new car, once I build up my strength and stamina pedaling it to all the places to which I now drive. Peak oil and global warming cannot wait. There is a learning curve to ALL technology (once my trike arrives, it will take a few months making the mechanical adjustments to suit me as well as learning motors, batteries, etc).
who drives a few? ... who drives a few? miles once a week?
So my comments were ... So my comments were removed because they were truthful. Wow, what's that say about the people posting. Solar Energy does next to nothing for transportation purposes. It's that simple. You can only get about 1KW theoritically per meter squared under the very best conditions. 1hp=746 watts. So under the best of? conditions, you get 1-1/2hp or maybe 3hp on a car's roof. Do the math people, get educated and stop dreaming and learn about physics and technology.
Solar power is ... Solar power is technically impossible to be used world-wide at the scale we would need it to be. Solar panels use arsenic, which we simply do not have enough of on our planet to support massive use of solar panels.
To top? it all off, they also only have a lifespan of some 15 - 20 years, and I dunno about you, but I don't fancy having toxins loading up my garage once they're no longer usable.
If anything, they are a short-term fix until we have harnessed either hydrogen power or nuclear fission
Nope.? Nope.?
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How hard would it ... How hard would it be to apply a thin photovoltaic film to the outside of a chevy? volt and then the car could recharge itself while parked at your work place or while being driven on the road?.
These cars in this video seem to incorporated photovoltaic cells into their exterior so I am wonderin why Chevy did not do that with the Volt. How much more efficient would it make the Volt?
1:59 I'm gonna have ... 1:59 I'm gonna have to buy that yacht ?
0:36? I want that ... 0:36? I want that bike
The oil companies ... The oil companies will just force the companies to sell the pantent and kill the idea, or make them incorporate using oil in some form in the vehicle. Oil giants control? the world.
Is Solar the new ... Is Solar the new Oil? Well for sure Oil is the old Solar, meaning? that oil is the decayed matter of plants and animals that could only have survived with energy from the sun, and afaik ALL energy we receive is from the sun.
Having all cars ... Having all cars running on solar energy is probably impossible:
Google for
smartgridelectronics "solar car"
and look at the computation about how much space is needed to provide the necessary energy for all private transportation.
However, sometimes this? solution can be intelligent, and should be explored.
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