Peri I doubt you have completely looked at the specs of the Stella cars. They have huge trunks and are touted as "Family Cars" basically a small SUV. They use a 15kw battery which without solar has a 400 mile range. So they would charge quickly just on Chademo or CCS. Just because a car is solar doesn't mean you have to only use solar. Ad to that it simply has a very long range and is good for everything but towing. I think a dead deer would fit in the trunk. It is certainly the perfect mad max vehicle for when there is no gas. This vehicle will still be able to go 400 miles after every 10 hours in the sun and be able to go 45 mph infinitely while the sun shines. The first Stella easily made it up the coast on Route 1 and 101 LA to San Francisco up and down all those hills. Lawrence Rhodes
Message: 3 Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 22:33:59 +0000 From: "Peri Hartman" <pe...@kotatko.com> To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <ev@lists.evdl.org> Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: The physics of slapping solar panels on cars Message-ID: <em7d3ccc32-2b88-4308-a1e3-96469217ad72@peri-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 What I mean is I (or you or the huddling masses...) want something that works for a 15 mile solo commute, works to take the family out to dinner, works to go skiing (hiking, fishing, hunting, ...) for the day, and works to go out of town for the weekend. I think the Stella might be able to do the first two, for a large percentage of people. The latter two? I doubt it. Now, for going out of town, it wouldn't be too hard to make arrangements to easily pick up a rental. The other case gets harder. You have a lot of elevation gain, meaning you'll need a pretty hefty battery since solar isn't going to be anywhere near adequate. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20181023/76036b2e/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
