• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    A solar powered car that topped at 70mph would be ideal,

    But goddamn, could you imagine just having one that topped at 30 MPh in a city? Infinite travel!

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      23 days ago

      If you can park on top of a parking garage, or in a spot on ground level where sunshine is not too much blocked by the surrounding buildings, you could surely commute on sunshine. Home parking barely matters for day shift workers in this scenario.

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      23 days ago

      Oh. That absolutely won’t happen. You’ll be losing battery power while you’re driving around.

      They can make all solar vehicles that will go and keep going as long as there’s sunshine, but they aren’t anything a regular person could use.

      • Cort@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        Yep. Iirc apterra does 100wh/mi and is covered with less than 1000w of solar, so you only make at most 10 miles of range per hour in perfect solar conditions.