Solar Team Eindhoven presented Stella Lux, an intelligent, solar-powered family car that generates more power than it uses. Read all about it + photos + specs.
Generating more power than you use is very beneficial in an electric car, as it means you’ll be able to charge the batteries while driving – that is, the driving will not actually use any battery charge as long as you have enough sunlight. So you only use the battery charge at other times: seriously cloudy spells, or night. It also means that it generates so much that even with less sun lots of power is generated (= high efficiency).
Extremely useful.
The material is much more interesting. When I discussed a topic later in the term, I found that the students…
Laura Davidson, Teacher