In early August 1998, 81 solar-electric vehicles participated in a three day endurance race in Japan. The objective was to complete as many laps of the 31 km circuit as possible. Some of the cars used state-of-the-art motors, batteries, chassis, solar cells and tyres to produce vehicles which could travel at speeds of 70-80 km/h on about 1 kW of input power. With only 20 kg of battery, some solar cars were travelling around 450 km a day. This paper tells the story of the race and the technological developments behind the successful vehicles.


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    Title :

    The 1998 World Solar Rallye: Akita, Japan


    Contributors:
    Shacklock, A. (author) / Duke, M. (author) / Burgess, N. (author)


    Publication date :

    1999


    Size :

    8 Seiten, 2 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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