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Did you look at the URL posted at all? The car is in final design stages, has enough cells to deliver 250km of range per week.
by jiofih 6y ago
Did you look at the URL posted at all? The car is in final design stages, has enough cells to deliver 250km of range per week.
- baybal2 6y agoHow many kilometres per week they take? 0.05 increase in drag coefficient can alone eat the energy equivalent of 50km in a week.
- kamranjon 6y agoI suspect you still haven't clicked on the link?
- jiofih 6y agoMy dream HN feature is only allowing comments after the main link has been visited for 5 minutes.
- Qwertious 6y agoPersonally I'd like if you could click on the link and then hit the "back" button to go directly to the comments. You can work around by clicking the comments and then the link, but then you look at the top comment and are tempted to read and then respond.
- baybal2 6y agoI did, I read their very optimistic estimates, and I still believe it being near useless with 250km a week.
- jiofih 6y agoYour back must hurt from moving that goalpost so often.
- GrinningFool 6y agoWhy would you by-default assume that the people who design and implement this are unaware of such considerations?
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- Rule35 6y agoMost likely they assume that the builders know how worthless it is but they think the customers will not, thus being tricked into buying this car to only save $50 a year. A solar golf cart would be great for people in Arizona, but a car with a solar roof is meaningless almost anywhere and actually wasteful everywhere that doesn't have great sun.
- jiofih 6y agoDid you just make the exact same kind of daft observation in response to that? Impressive lack of awareness.
- natch 6y agoVaporware is a thing. As is clickbait. Also false marketing. The engineers don’t always control the marketing. Maybe the commenter you replied to is simply not gullible.
- jiofih 6y agoOr maybe not everything is marketing and a cursory search shows you the project is an engineering project backed by multiple universities? No, it must be fake, because it doesn’t fit my own agenda, and I don’t have the time to actually read any of the engineering info. I’ll just use my well-honed common sense to dismiss this totally impractical and stupid idea by physics and engineering grads. Do they think I’m dumb? I’ll show them by shouting even louder, and don’t you dare disagree or censor me! (this is sadly the state of rational thinking today)
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- meragrin_ 6y ago> Did you look at the URL posted at all? The car is in final design stages, has enough cells to deliver 250km of range per week. ... in June IF YOU ARE REALLY REALLY LUCKY AND PARK IN FULL SUN. Full sun in June, no thanks. How much of that will be eaten up by the extra cooling necessary?
- jiofih 6y agoNone, especially in Europe where the full summer sun barely sings.