On Sep 22, 2015, at 11:46 AM, EVDL Administrator via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> The autonomous onboard-PV EV is a sweet dream. Who wouldn't love to drive > on pure sunshine and never have to fuel up or plug in? But at the current > state of the art, that's your heart talking, not your head. Not just current state of the art...it's never going to be practical for the four-door five-passenger freeway sedan that dominates the roadways; there just isn't enough insolation. The Nissan Leaf already fits that bill, save with rooftop solar and a limited range -- and the Tesla is perhaps the best luxury performance sedan ever made. So what sort of sense does it make to restrict yourself to a prone position in a sardine can that can't be garaged and can only be driven in the open on sunny days...just so you can have the privilege of hauling around an expensive and fragile kluge of a portable solar array? Again, fantastic for the bragging rights, the engineering challenge, all the rest. But it'll never be anything other than a gimmick, even long after the majority of the cars on the road are solar powered. b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150922/ea37c22c/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
