In recent years, everyone has been trying to buy electric cars. Why aren’t there cars with solar panels, which seem to be a more environmentally friendly solution than electric cars that are touted as the cars of the future?
To make the world a better place an alternative to fossil fuels electric cars emerged. In fact, these cars also get their energy depending on a place, but at least more than fossil fuels. a clean energy source displayed as.
Having set out with the idea of making an environmentally friendly car with unlimited solar energy, the companies tried to design a car that gets its energy from the solar panel many times. So why solar powered cars can’t we?
Did you know that the first electric car was made in 1835?
In fact, the history of electric cars is not short at all, in 1835. Thomas Davenport An electric car was built by him. However, the technology was not yet at a sufficient level at that time and this idea did not receive support. For example, in 1912 electric car at $1,750 gasoline car It was selling for $650.
Gasoline cars were both more powerful at that time and electric cars were used for a short time due to the easier access to gasoline. to the dusty pages of history managed to hide it.
In recent years, electric cars have revolutionized the automotive industry.
Cars, which have been powered by fossil fuels for many years, are now new. getting their power from electricity started. In the automotive world, with designs that seem to come from the future, especially Tesla, people’s preference is now these innovative cars. Along with Tesla, many companies started to invest in electric automotives.
Although electric cars are good, they also have many disadvantages. Well, instead of these cars, they get their energy directly from the sun. solar panel cars Can it be produced?
% of cars with the energy that the sun offers us free of charge.100 nature friendly It might sound like a good idea at first.
But this idea is far from being a successful plan in today’s world. We all know that cars must have high powers. This power that cars need is currently due to the not very efficient technology of solar panels. we get from the sun it does not seem possible.
Solar panels require large areas to produce energy. of cars Due to its limited space, The energy produced will be insufficient for the car.
If we develop solar panels, the next problem is that the Sun is not always overhead.
The most efficient of sunlight The hours are the noon hours of each country. We also have to say that only 55% of the Sun’s energy reaches the Earth.
As this is the case, cars powered by the Solar panel are only maxed out at noon. able to generate energy. Therefore, it is thought that it will be difficult to produce the amount of energy needed by the car during the day.
Let’s say we live in a place where the Sun is overhead for 10 hours a day, but what if it’s cloudy? That day if it rains Can’t we use our car?
Even if we create a world where the sun never sets, this time we face cost and efficiency problems.
Let’s assume that we have a perfect Earth to use this energy, and that the Sun is scorching this Earth from the heat. In this way solar panels It will be an incredible strength.
Even if this were true, the costs would cause us problems. According to a study, only to make solar panels suitable for cars and use them. car head There is a $10,000 fee. This is when we consider car prices abroad. a high cost stands out as.
We have a lot of money, even if you say we want to use this technology, the efficiency of the panels may bother you this time. Panels to generate electrical energy photovoltaic cells uses. Electricity is produced when sunlight hits the PV cells.
This efficiency of cells only 20%. In other words, only 20% of the sun’s rays are available to us.
Although it is such a difficult issue to solve, it is still solar powered. Lightyear 0 is available for pre-order.
Lightyear 0, developed by the Dutch Can run on solar energy. The vehicle, which can travel 625 kilometers with electricity, can travel a distance of 70 kilometers thanks to the solar panels on it.
top of the car covered with solar panels and thus the car can fill up to 35 kilometers in open air. In addition, according to the company’s statement; vehicle in hot places, for example in Africa 7 months on a single charge available throughout.
Since it is a fairly new technology at the moment, it will be clear how real this data is after the vehicle meets the end user. Lightyear 0If you want to buy now, you have to pay a fee of 250.000 € (excluding taxes in our country).
Instead of buying a solar powered car, you can buy 2 Model Xs.
solar powered Lightyear 0A fee of €250.000 is too high at the moment. On the other hand, the enhanced Plaid version of Tesla’s Model X can be purchased for $130,000.
In other words, it is possible to buy 2 latest model electric cars instead of 1 solar powered car. Sun With the cheapening of panel technology together maybe we’ll see more cars like the Lightyear 0 in the future but for now it’s just a very limited wealthy group interests.
It does not seem possible to see this type of cars widely in the near future. Continuing to manage with the useless tools of ordinary universities…
Sources: Livelywatt, RoadandTrack