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‘World’s first off-road solar SUV’ just drove across Morocco powered only by the sun (edition.cnn.com)
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[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 117 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

The road-legal car has a top speed of 145 kilometers (90 miles) per hour. On a sunny day, its battery range is around 710 kilometers (441 miles) on roads, and around 550 kilometers (342 miles) off-road, depending on the surface. In cloudy conditions, the team estimates the range could be 50 kilometers less.

This actually seems pretty good. I suppose those numbers would go down over time and depending on how dirty they are.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Those filthy numbers will go down all day

Wait what are we talking about?

[–] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

That’s by draining the battery, not by sustaining a charge. If it gets 710km in the sun and 660km in cloudy weather, it probably gets 610 without any solar panels at all.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait, someone above stated that this took them a week and half of travel time. If they could go 441 miles on a single charge, why did it take them an additional 8-9 days to accomplish the remaining 179 miles?

[–] rutenl@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago

To charge the battery with solar while standing still I guess