3000 Km without a Charging Station ?
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Hindustan Times ( 09 Oct ) carries a news report
titled :
“ Solar Cars begin gruelling race across
Australian desert “
42 Solar powered cars will cover 3000 km
( Darwin to Adelaide ) , averaging speeds of 90 – 100 km / hour !
Only for starting the race , external
battery ( I suppose , Lithium-ion ) storage of 5 kwh is allowed
For the rest of the journey , cars must
entirely depend on their Solar
Panels .
There are no
battery charging stations on that 3000 km route !
Of course , since there is no sun to
charge the battery at night , cars stop at 5 pm
This made me wonder :
If these Solar powered “ Racing Cars “
can manage to cover 500 km per day , without re-charging , solely depending upon continuous
charging of their batteries by the sun , then why cannot India adopt this
technology for its ambitious Electric Vehicle program ?
That made me search :
where I read :
“ 2017 will see the
third running of this class, which is a tribute to the inaugural event in 2013
which saw a four-seater family car
travel over 3000 Km with an external energy input of just 64 kWh ! ( to put this into context, a modern family car returning around 5 ltr /
100 km would use an energy equivalent of around 5000 kWh ! ) “
Dear Shri Gadkariji / Shri Amitabh
Kantji :
I believe the “ Electric Vehicle Road Map
“ is about to be approved / released
How different would that Road Map look like , if
it does not require ANY BATTERY – CHARGING
INFRASTRUCTURE ?
No need for millions of charging stations ? ( except for home-based charging at night , during
cloudy days / roadside shops offering swappable batteries )
ISRO has already demonstrated this technology , as pointed out in my following blogs / emails :
Solar
Panels charging Li-ion Batteries of Electric Cars ? [ 04
May 2017 ]
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