this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
115 points (98.3% liked)

Electric Vehicles

2900 readers
81 users here now

A community for the sharing of links, news, and discussion related to Electric Vehicles.

Rules

  1. No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
  2. Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
  3. No self-promotion
  4. No irrelevant content. All posts must be relevant and related to plug-in electric vehicles — BEVs or PHEVs.
  5. No trolling
  6. Policy, not politics. Submissions and comments about effective policymaking are allowed and encouraged in the community, however conversations and submissions about parties, politicians, and those devolving into general tribalism will be removed.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
whoopThereItIs
pushpush
[email protected]
cosmic_slate
115
‘World’s first off-road solar SUV’ just drove across Morocco powered only by the sun (www.cnn.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/evs
21 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Built by a team of students at Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), “the world’s first off-road solar-powered vehicle” could help connect remote areas “where roads are less developed and energy grids are not as reliable,” and assist with emergency aid and deliveries, says Thieme Bosman, events manager for the team.

The team tested the vehicle in Morocco earlier this month, driving more than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) between the country’s northern coast and the Sahara Desert in the south.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Well see, now you're actually making good points that do have some value to them.

First and foremost, that a concept built by a bunch of students, it doesn't have to be perfect, it's goal is to prove the concept. The first ever built plain that actually worked wasn't perfect - does that mean people who built it should've abandoned it?

Not everything has to be equally viable in all circumstance. Building made in regions with high seismic activity are built in a way to account for that activity. If one lives on a flatland with zero seismic activity - those extra resources spent on a building might seem worthless to such a person, but they are not and if said person says that "they can just build normal houses there, what's the issue? " then the person is ignorant (and also a complete prick).

As to the car failing as an SUV - I haven't seen where they driven during the test run so I can't say whether or not it failed. They got from the point A to the point B so if I had to guess I say it worked fine.

P. S. I'm not sure why I'm wasting my time on this with that attitude of yours with prove me wrong and such... Yeah, whatever