The big wrong at the moment is a short circuit, a simple-sounding problem in the delicate wiring of a solar vehicle.
A study on the benefits of a moving solar roof for parking phases in a Hybrid Solar Vehicle is presented.
Sanyo in Japan today announced [JP] what it says is the world's first solar-cell-equipped public bus, the Solarve (which stands for Solar Vehicle).
A study on optimal energy management on a hybrid solar vehicle (HSV) with series structure is presented.
The third co-founder, Aleksi Tukiainen, is coming straight out of graduate school at Cambridge, where he worked on machine learning methods and control systems, with a special focus on collaboration platforms, solar vehicle design and self-learning robots.
Specifically in this paper, a hybrid solar vehicle (HSV) was considered, thus requiring to define the heuristic rules as function of both average traction power and current solar irradiation.
But what makes this project compelling is that, unlike students at the other MIT and a hundred other universities, these students weren't trying to build a solar vehicle that could travel the fastest, or the farthest, or used some heretofore-impossible technology.
History is littered with other energy technologies that fell flat: synthetic fuels, biomass, nuclear fusion, solar, electric vehicles.
While other solar-powered vehicles have been made for racing, the solar-powered Stella is the first vehicle made for road travel.
