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- Nickolassc, on 02/28/2009, -1/+17Well, let's hope it can compete with TU Delft at this years world solar challenge. It's been a national embarrassment getting whipped by the Netherlands year after year.
:D - timusca, on 02/28/2009, -5/+17Too bad it looks like a giant maxi pad.
- aphexcoil, on 02/28/2009, -2/+14That may just be the most retarded analogy in the history of Mankind.
- Liqkhaos, on 02/28/2009, -1/+12It's an endurance race.
Witty remark fail. - Liqkhaos, on 02/28/2009, -0/+10Since it's an endurance race and not a speed race.
- Zervaman, on 02/28/2009, -2/+11are you speaking from experience?
- dmbchris, on 02/28/2009, -1/+8I thought the MIT team had given up racing- good to see them come back! Hopefully we'll have strong entries from all US teams and leave Delft in the dust
The USA teams:
smart but inexperienced: http://www.mit.edu/%7Esolar-cars/
5-time USA champions: http://www.umsolar.com
the underdog, http://www.principiasolarcar.com
Does anyone else think the Principia car did MIT's traditional "manta" design (dates back to '95) better than MIT did this time around? - lead2thehead, on 02/28/2009, -1/+8Okay, now go back and RTFA. It's solar powered. It will run indefinitely, so long as the sun is out. FTA...
"It finished the race across Australia a full three days ahead of its competitors, It finished the race across Australia a full three days ahead of its competitors, powered by an electric motor that consumed as much power as a hair dryer, at speeds up to 45 mph, and the solar-powered batteries were still fully charged" - breadfred, on 02/28/2009, -0/+7Yeah. You do not seem to understand. It does NOT need any petrol or anything else. It runs on what your CALCULATOR runs on. Now shut up and learn to read and understand the significance of this achievement.
- macmcraeart, on 02/28/2009, -3/+10Solar power. An electric car minus the pollution.
- macmcraeart, on 02/28/2009, -2/+8If only it had "wings"
- breadfred, on 02/28/2009, -0/+5It is if all you have is the power of the sun that is God knows how many miles away... No use of petrol, gasoline or candles. And, by the way, 90 miles per hour is faster than you are allowed in your country on the road... unless you live in Germany.
- verkon, on 02/28/2009, -0/+4Four triple-A batteries?
- waythingsare, on 02/28/2009, -1/+5Sweet.
- D0rk4L, on 02/28/2009, -0/+4Glad to see they're pushing the solar power sector to new levels by competing in this race.
But did you guys really have to spell out M.I.T. by laying on the ground? You guys are dorks. - MacEnvy, on 02/28/2009, -3/+6We call butts "fannies". So unless they're to control diarrhea , that translation doesn't work well in the US.
- Frayed_Knot, on 02/28/2009, -1/+4I'd rather have this than a Ferrari with no gas.
- inactive, on 02/28/2009, -0/+3thats insane
- ChuckDiesel, on 03/01/2009, -1/+4Have you ever driven a solar race car? I have. They are extremely light (less than 500 lbs), run on three 2.5 inch wide tires and the carbon fiber shell turns the inside into an echo chamber, amplifying the road and suspension noise. Driving them above 80 mph really can be terrifying and you need to be very confident in the engineering (which for most teams is done entirely by undergraduate college students) to push these cars to their limit.
- Elliuotatar, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3Why do they waste their time building these kinds of solar vehicles? The design is completely impractical.
Of COURSE they're going to get insane mileage and speeds out of a "car" which is basically a tricycle and can only carry one person in cramped conditions.
I'd like to see what they could do with a real car, while keeping it practical. At LEAST build cars like those little mini four seater things they're selling now, one of which I saw with the license plate DTHTRAP. - Evilblobs, on 03/01/2009, -0/+2Nothing with a top speed of 90mph can ever be considered a race car. same with the tesla at 125.
At their ridiculous prices, you're squarely in supercar territory, Ferraris, ZR1, etc (which even with the Tesla's torque-monster motor, is still outrun by)
The electric car thing is great, and should be a fine replacment for commuters, but they arent even remotely sports cars or race cars.
well not yet anyways. - Asten77, on 02/28/2009, -3/+5meh, we built and raced a 76 mph solar cars 10 years ago. The limiting factor on a sunny day was the motor. The only reason it didn't go faster is we didn't spring for the higher speed motor, since we had to obey traffic laws.
- FreeFlow, on 02/28/2009, -1/+3Who Killed the Electric Car?
- RabidCapitalist, on 02/28/2009, -0/+2If General Motors had taken the initiative and done R & D like this, we wouldn't be mortgaging our great-great-grandkids' future to bail them out of the crapper.
- breadfred, on 03/01/2009, -0/+2Powerful calculator you got there.. does it have wheels?
- nyx210, on 03/01/2009, -0/+2That's dorktacular.
- wrestlingnrj, on 03/01/2009, -0/+2How is it that it can be labeled as a "race car" when it only does 90mph?
- PaulHouse, on 03/01/2009, -0/+2Now if they can just make one that will do a couple thousand miles per hour, it will be fast enough to keep up with sunlight....
- Gnikcjack, on 03/01/2009, -1/+2HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 70 YEAR OLD HOOKER! AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH OMG STORY OF MY LIFE
- QNXX, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1upmodded for tesla
- peters1023, on 03/01/2009, -1/+2Try riding an '82 Honda Shadow 500 through a speed wobble at 120. Then get back to me.
- HelterSkelter42, on 08/28/2009, -0/+0:)
- peters1023, on 02/28/2009, -2/+2Sorry 90 mph is still not a race car.
"Our previous car, Tesseract, was very fast. It was taken up to 85 mph before the driver got terrified,"
Sounds exciting.
/s - SigurRos42, on 08/28/2009, -0/+0I can’t wait to be driving something like this on the road in perhaps the next 20 years? I just had some San Jose solar electric panels http://sanjosesolarelectric.org/ installed on my roof and this months bills have already gone down by half! Solar power is defiantly the future!
- grandhi, on 03/02/2009, -1/+1fake imagination
- rheaume, on 02/28/2009, -5/+4This research is going to be valuable one day.. soon hopefully
- dsfjvhbd, on 02/28/2009, -2/+1I will be impressed, when one comes out, that can comfortably carry a family plus luggage and still go at normal road speeds.
- aphexcoil, on 02/28/2009, -5/+4Nice design. Where did they hide the Mr. Fusion?
- supersonicjim, on 02/28/2009, -5/+2We call them fanny pads
- iloveobama, on 02/28/2009, -9/+4Ugly, slow, and $250,000? I'll take a Ferrari F430 instead
- playuhh, on 02/28/2009, -7/+2(original douchebagomatic ignorant statement about how the tesla ev2 is way better)
WHAT THE ***** SOLAR?!
***** ME! THATS CRAZY! - pitdog, on 02/28/2009, -9/+3imagination my friend, imagination.
hyperbolae if you will - buckrogers1965, on 02/28/2009, -9/+2I'd rather it went twice as far at 65mph. Buried.
- fernplant, on 02/28/2009, -11/+2That's neat and all but since when does 90 MPH qualify as a 'race car'?
- everlife, on 02/28/2009, -13/+1Wow 90mph! That's not fast at all.
- inactive, on 02/28/2009, -15/+2fake
- peters1023, on 02/28/2009, -15/+290 mph is not a race car.
MIT fail.
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