As the electric vehicle industry becomes increasingly competitive and consumers become more eco-conscious, one California-based company created a car that can run on solar power. NBC News’ Steve Patterson took it for a test drive to find out how it works.
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Can anyone confirm what the actual battery size used was? Not Aptera wishful propaganda, the real battery size kWh. If it was a smaller temporary battery that could partially explain the problem but then they have to explain why they don't yet have the 42 kWh battery.
The only reason why it had trouble with the hill was that the electric motors water cooling hoses were not hooked up. Production vehicle will be ready for heat wave mountain driving
Copied from my latest video because rattlesnake raj blocks me (like so many cretins) –
I was gobsmacked by the nonsense in the AM cartoon video that was supposed to explain skin cooling – so much so that I made a video about how silly it was. Next, the cretin from AOC visits wingnut (Daniel) at the factory and posts an explanation by him using a test bed as an example. The explanation differed from the cartoon; it was patently a useless test bed, and I made another video explaining why. Next wingnut is giving added info to the cretin at FCL to convince the great unwashed that it is practically foolproof. I made another video, and Danny boy is no longer with AM (along with about 50 others). Now I will go back to square one and just say what is wrong with skin cooling.
The system relies on air flowing under the belly pan and the coolness transferring to the battery pack under the seat via coolant channels, but the air is ineffective due to many reasons.
1. The belly pan has to be thick so that road debris does not puncture it, and that works against it needing to be thin to transfer cool effectively.
2. The pan has to be flat so that enough of the surface area is in very close proximity to the lower plate that has the coolant channels, but it has to be curved to get that low drag. They kept the curve, meaning only the perimeter is close enough to the lower plate, and the movement away (bowl-shaped) puts them too far apart to transfer cool effectively.
3. The pan is far too small in area to provide enough cool for batteries over probably 5 or 10 kWh. This is because it is well under the area of a radiator, which increases area by the use of the many paper-thin cores, which all touch the cooling channels for maximum effect.
4. The coolant has little time or space to cool the batteries; it is pumped over them for the heat collection phase, so it's the very bottom of the batteries that have half a chance, while the largest areas (the battery cylinders) can't get much, and are up against other hot cylinders. Over and under, but never between them is ineffective.
5. The idiotic claim that air drawn through the wiper gap can join the coolant flow when parked doesn't deserve explaining, but I have done it prior to today.
6. It's not that relevant to the reasons, but the attempt to not provide DC charging was because this wiper gap method was a joke, and they knew it. Only the knowledge that they never intended to produce one allowed them to backflip when the thickheads revolted.
“I think your the first person to drive this on a hill” lol
So it hasn’t been tested much ?
NBC news, huh? Well, see you later!
It might be a way to get you to the pride parade.
First company to acquire tesla's network. It will launch with tesla port.
The ride looks janky.
40 miles a day from the sun, 0 – 60 in 4 seconds. Up to 1,000 miles on a charge. (The initial version, the launch edition will get 400 miles on a charge.)
It can be plugged into fast chargers when necessary, or it can be charged from a home 110 outlet. Since it’s so aerodynamic, it has a smaller battery, it’ll charge faster than other EVs.
I’m not entirely sure about being the first mass-market vehicle with solar cells being equipped onto a vehicle.
Fisker, Hyundai, and Mercedes already offer a select fee of vehicles with an optional solar roof.
I’ll save you all time……no. You can argue all you want but be warned, I have a degree in this field.
This is proving how old some of us are when this is available to all we will be in our 80's
3 wheels?…forget that..
chippin' away… remember, the first cars were crude and unreliable, and could travel at about 10-15 mph. Most of the technology that has made cars what they are today didn't exist when they first began to emerge.
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THIS IS GREAT! There have obviously been major improvements to solar technology over the past few decades, and improvements will continue, but solar vehicles themselves must be part of a new class of transportation, not forced to perform at the same level as internal combustion vehicles – roads must be modified, entire communities redesigned, etc. These were the same types of adaptations that were made after the horse and carriage/wagon was replaced by the first steam-powered, electric-powered and internal combustion vehicles. Society must get out of its own way if we are to survive and thrive.
Answer: NO!… The future for automobiles is "single point energy"; zero fuel cost: see "The Lost Century and how to reclaim it"… Solar, wind, nuclear, oil, coal, gas, hydro electric: OBSOLETE (for over 100 yrs.) Not kidding; truth!……………………………………..you'll see…………………!!
Wrong! 25 years ago there were Solar car races. Across Australia.
This car will never see the light of day because of the fossil fuel companies this newscast will erase messages that go against the fossil fuels and everything that they're telling you about this car is a lie because it will never hit the public it will never hit the streets because the fossil fuels control this type of media they control CNN MSNBC and fox so this is a stupid ignorance story that will go nowhere because they don't want it to go nowhere😅😅😅
Reversed Alien technology at its worst.
Think the abilty to charge the battery with the sun is smart but this implementation makes no sense if this is the result
So only on sunny days can i travel as farcas sayva horse
Aptera $50,000.00 is too D*** High!
4 years of development and it can't get up a hill 🤔
Can’t get something for nothing. Lots of resources have to be used to produce each of these cars. The root of the problem is overpopulation, plain and simple
Yes and no, hybrid ac/electric and solar* with backup fuel fed systems for strict emergencies are the ticket if we can manage making them economical to produce. If alternate fuel sources become viable we could retire dependency on fossil fuel entirely. Need alternatives to current lubricants as well to complete the process and bring electronics to be fully environmentally friendly.