Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Solar Car - NLV Quant

 

The machine - http://www.nlv-quant.com/     The makers - http://www.nlv-solar.com/

 

Salient points :

Technology - The car is covered with a thin film of photo-voltaic cells with an average photovoltaic conversion efficiency of 38%, depending on ambient conditions, and a peak performance of over 50%. Further it claims that the projected degradation coefficient is only 5–6% over 20 years.

Speed - 0–100 km/h in 2.8 seconds and hit a top speed of 377 km/h

New York Times speaks on it here.

PS : In the early scripts for Quant, didn’t we surely read that on a substantial exposure to good Sun-Light, the batteries get charged fully in as short as 15 mins to be ready for a non-stop 500 km drive. Further you keep charging on the way. Didn’t get to read such a claim once again. Was it a hallucination that caught us on to this fabulous Quant or should we blame it to marketing going over-board?

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