Super Car Runs With Sunshine

Envision an auto that keeps running on the same force as a toaster. 

That is the thing that the understudy run Stanford Solar Car Project cases to have done. The task outlines, assembles, tests and races sun oriented controlled vehicles as a component of the World Solar Challenge, a 2,000-mile (3,200 kilometer) trek over the Australian Outback. The point is to create fuel-effective, lighter and more streamlined vehicles. 

As the video above demonstrates, the lightweight vehicle, which travels at 55mph (89km/h), works on one and only battery pack's charge. Its bulbous shape is intended to minimize drag, yet it was a gigantic test to assemble. 

The group's building rationality is that they can repurpose conventional outlines to make them more effective and feasible. Their auto won't ever make it on to the streets however – it is excessively delicate, making it impossible to survive an accident with another vehicle, and must be escorted by different autos amid the Australian race. 

Rachel Abril, an individual from the venture's mechanical group, identifies with BBC Future at the group's Stanford worksho.

Additional video courtesy: Mark Shwartz, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University: http://energy.stanford.edu.

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