The market is not going to be long distance anytime soon but as a
small commuter car it starts to become appealing. Reliable range
of 200 or so miles with top speed of 100 Kph one or two seats
is not far from what a 1000 mile range at 30 miles/hour of this
test car.

For a while yet batteries or some form of energy storage are
likely to be the biggest engineering issue

w..




Gordon Williams wrote:

> While it might garner a few headlines, one person driving at 45 Kph with
> enough luggage space for a case of beer (and they don't say if it a 6 or =
24)
> won't be used by my family anytime soon.
>
> At that speed they are putting out about the same power as a racer on a
> bike.  If they had added a few solar panels and changed the shape closer =
to
> one of the sun racers they could have gotten a few more miles out of it.
>
> > http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15326634,00.html
> >

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