Free Solar Pro - Solar Cars
Solar Powered Cars
Many companies moving towards Solar Power to reduce use of fossil fuels
Sunlight is an excellent source of energy. It can be used for many things. It can heat our homes and our water, it can
give us "free" electricity, operate communication and navigational systems and
even power our cars. This technology is
gaining more ground every day as new discoveries are made.
Solar powered cars get their "fuel" from the
sun. These cars use several hundred photovoltaic
cells to "power" them. These cells convert sunlight into electricity. Each cell produces about one-half volt of
electricity.
Solar car manufacturers have to make allowances for
variations in sunlight. You might want
to drive your car on a cloudy day, or at night. For these reasons, the electricity is collected in a battery bank that saves the power for when you need it.
If you design a car to put all the energy into driving and
nothing in the battery bank, it will stop running if the sun goes behind a
cloud. But, if you store too much and
don't leave enough for the car to run on, it will run slowly.
There are still many questions to be answered concerning
solar powered cars, but with the rising price of fossil fuels,
scientists are stepping up their research to tap into this renewable and
pollution-free source of power. There
may come a day in the near future when solar power will replace
combustion engine cars.
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