Solar Cars
A Queensland racing and research team is moving to become the world’s first manufacturer of solar cars requiring road registration.
It will cost more than $250,000 — and it may not even come with air-conditioning.
Clenergy Team Arrow founder Cameron Tuesley said the prototype vehicle being built for next year’s World Solar Challenge would be used to develop a model for commercial purposes.
The race runs 3,000 kilometres from Darwin to Adelaide.
and to get the obvious out of the way
$250k so about 125k GBP or 100,000l of petrol or 22k Gallons which at a random figure of 40mpg is about 88,000 miles. Starting to sound like decent value 😉
I know it’s not sunny all the time but..
Clenergy Team Arrow plans for the commercial model, on a fully charged battery, to travel distances of between 300km–400km at a highway cruising speed of 110kph, without the need for the sun’s energy.
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Mr Tuesley said if the car proved popular the price would come down as more were produced.
“They’re going to be handmade. They’re going to be bespoke,” he said.
“I can tell you, we’ve already taken orders.”
Kind of an exciting time isn’t it 🙂