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Energymatters.com.au In the afternoon of August 11, Stanford University Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab showed the public the latest solar car Xenith. Nearly a thousand visitors who heard the news kept the labs out of their minds.
The car was developed by Stanford University's undergraduate team, the Stanford Solar Car Project, which took two years. Nathan Hall, the project's chairman, said that Xenith was designed with lightness and energy efficiency in mind. The car weighs only 375 pounds and can drive up to 70 miles per hour under solar energy. The Xenith car has only three wheels. The entire car is streamlined and looks more like an alien spaceship. The car is about 1 meter high and can only take one passenger. The surface of the car consists of 26 solar panels, approximately 3 meters wide and 6 meters long.
Nathan Hall explained that when the sun is not out, the car can use the energy in the lithium battery pack, can travel 200 miles, and stay at 55 miles per hour without problems. But as long as it is in the sun, it can support the energy needed for driving a car. Nathan Hall said that their car, at current gasoline prices, is roughly equal to the energy consumption of 1250 miles per gallon of gasoline. The estimate has already broken the highest record of solar energy efficiency in Silicon Valley. But when they were built, they spent about 500,000 U.S. dollars.
Stanford University will participate in this year's World Solar Challenge. The challenge will be held in Australia in 10 competitions. At that time, they will take the fastest solar car to participate in the competition and hope to become a player since 1987. The first US team to win the game.
Nathan Hall said that this all-solar car will participate in the 2011 World Solar Challenge which will be held in Australia in October this year and is expected to complete a 3,000-km journey. They will spend 5 weeks to prepare for the game. By then, there will be more than 30 teams from 20 countries, and another California team from the University of California, Berkeley. (Translated by Cara)
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