This Solar-Powered Car Built By Students Can Reach 100km/h With No Battery
While our students here in Nigeria are busy dancing shaku shaku, following up BBNaija and so many unfruitful ventures, their counterparts around the world are making a great impact to make the world a better to live. Emerging from the prototype vehicles lab (otherwise known as PROVE Lab) at California Polytechnic state university, a group of students has created the first vehicle designed only to break the solar-powered land speed record. the solar car is named ‘dawn’ and is designed to reach 65mph without any battery. The vehicle, which is the result of two and half years of work, was designed using hundreds of hours of simulation, with some wind tunnel testing for the aerodynamics. The entire vehicle produces only a few kg of aerodynamic drag and is powered entirely by a 2kW solar array, which means there are no batteries used in the car unlike other solar cars designed for races across America or Australia. The vehicle has no steering wheel, and getting in and out of the car ...