http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/ Engadget Comments for Chinese-made solar-powered car gets 150 kilometers on a 30-hour charge http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
That'd be neat.]]>Oct 17th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
I'll be happy when every other gas station goes out of business or starts to give out free car washes out of desperation.]]>Oct 17th 2008 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
And I'd definitely get that rather than this car, especially considering the awful safety record of Chinese cars to date http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbe5ILICT4M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5SRyG6UR2A]]>Oct 17th 2008 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/automotive_news/4222176.html?series=32

Do you have any other information on a diesel Volt?]]>Oct 17th 2008 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daewoo_Matiz

2. All Chinese cars are "deathtraps" [Quality/Safety]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ3oyo-irJ4 (Asian Car Comparison Guide: Japanese vs. Korean vs. Chinese)

Truth Hurts.]]>Oct 18th 2008 1:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
The cabin intrusion on those Chinese cars is beyond unacceptable. And they put air bags in those cars? What the hell is that for??

So much for Chinese auto engineering. There is NO way I would get into one of those deathtraps. No fucking way!]]>Oct 18th 2008 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/09/10/meet-the-euro-volt-opel-flextreme-concept-has-ultra-low-emissio/]]>Oct 19th 2008 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
"Yeah, I'll be there at about Sunday O'clock. I've got a 30 hour fillup to look forward to tonight."]]>Oct 17th 2008 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
"Yep! I'll be there, rain or shine! ... oh wait... just shine."]]>Oct 17th 2008 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
Of course, I'd have to be able to charge it off the wall power, too.]]>Oct 17th 2008 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/IF you angle the panel to the sun.
IF you have an absolutely clear day.
Then, you'll get that conversion efficiency.
Let's call it 15.5%, the mean of the stated efficiency.
Can't tell for sure from the photo, but let's be generous and call it an 8 by 10 foot solar panel.
That's 80 square feet X 100 watts per sq. ft. (really clear "Air Mass 1" solar input) X 0.155 (efficiency fraction) = 124 watts output.

IF you have 8 hours of Air Mass 1 sunlight (very rare, actually), you'll get 8 X 124 Watts X 0.001 Watts/Kilowatt = 0.99 KwH (Kilo Watt Hours).
0.99 KwH per day is simply NOT ENOUGH to drive a car 40km (150 / 30 hours X 8 hours).

No way, Jose.
Do you people have any sense, or do you just reprint whatever bullshit press releases come over the wires?]]>Oct 17th 2008 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
80 square feet X 100 watts per sq. ft. X 0.155 = 1240 watts



]]>Oct 17th 2008 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
65*100*0.155 = 1007.5 W

(8*1007.5)/1000 = 8.06 kWh

It doesn't seem that off that you could get that much travel with sitting for 4+ days of charging. They don't list the kwh of the battery, or the max kw of motor output.

The Think EV has a 17kw motor, and 200km range. I don't remember exactly, but I believe it's between 25 and 30 kWh. If you can get get a more conservative 5kWh per 8 hour day out of 3 panels, 30 hours is about 18kWh. A very light (not US crash worthy) car could do 150km on 18kWh if the top speed isn't very high (say 80km/h)]]>Oct 17th 2008 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
As someone once, said, "You can have something done three ways: fast, cheap, or good. Pick two."

Engadget is a blog, and blogs are notorious for having inaccurate information. They don't have standards to uphold, like traditional news sources have. But they have the news here early, they have it for free, and most of the time they make it damn entertaining.

You don't want "bullshit press releases?" Go buy a Wall Street Journal. Maybe, just maybe, they'll pick up this story in three to six months.]]>Oct 17th 2008 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/You're saying that you can drive this car at 9.3 mph on the power of one average lightbulb?
Show me the car that can do this.
This isn't that car.]]>Oct 17th 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
first of all, i was wrong. engadget changed the post from 15km on 1hr charge to 5km. so now you gotta drive it at 3.1mph.

second of all, you really hate this thing huh? you replied negatively to almost half the comments here.]]>Oct 17th 2008 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 18th 2008 6:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
google for "150 km in miles"

150 kilometers = 93.2056788 miles]]>Oct 17th 2008 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
booyak!]]>Oct 17th 2008 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
I'm sorry your 3rd grade teacher failed you so miserably.]]>Oct 17th 2008 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
He really means My American. ]]>Oct 18th 2008 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Saying it exists doesn't make it so.]]>Oct 17th 2008 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
Even if the figures they quote are a bit unrealistic, as long as you don't need to do many miles per day, and don't have an inferiority complex, this is a great form of transport.

I mean, $5,560? What a bargain!

]]>Oct 17th 2008 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
do you really think china will try to save the world by producing a vehicle that is zero-emissions?

They produce these junkers because they don't want to pay for GAS. I bet you a new (american) car that this piece of bulldung has parts made of illegally banned materials that would do more harm to the planet than good for your wallet. There's no such thing as helping the environment in china nor are their any design achievements. It's either copying other people's designs or making something like a strap on solar panel that would eject itself when in a 20mph crash killing other innocent bystanders.

If you really want to design something that is ecologically friendly and SAFE for everyone else on the road, don't buy this junker and instead, spend some years in R&D actually DESIGNING something your own THEN after thorough testing, SELL IT. Don't sell this because you know the chinaman next door who is so cheap will certainly buy this junker, only to wreak havoc upon the safety among other automobile drivers!]]>Oct 17th 2008 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
where are you from ?

Before laughing at China and the Chinamen, ask yourself, what has your OWN country ever achieved ? Sorry, not trying to offend you but if your country is one of those good for nothing countries then I am sorry, you're actually insulting your country more than insulting China. ]]>Oct 17th 2008 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/

Good god this place never ceases to amaze me... *rolleyes*]]>Oct 17th 2008 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dimg2n2Azwg

Watch that and tell me you want to own a Chinese-made car again.]]>Oct 17th 2008 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Fluffy Dice, more like.]]>Oct 17th 2008 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
Adding this to a new diesel motor, would mean that even when it was time to fill up cheaper/cleaner/more fuel efficient.

From the size of it, I would say that it would be pretty easy to use modern solar cells, layered on instead of that block in the same amount of space just for looks.

Even though %90 do drive within that 40m per day it is that "wherever/whenever I want to go" feeling that a car does give you is why SOME fuel engine is needed for now.

]]>Oct 17th 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/
]]>Oct 17th 2008 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/My commute is about 10 miles each way, so I'd be able to recharge that + more while parked at work for the 8-9 hours.]]>Oct 17th 2008 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/chinese-made-solar-powered-car-gets-150-kilometers-on-a-30-hour/Oct 17th 2008 3:08PM