Dutch solar car defeats Apple and Tesla

Posted on 06-02-2015 at 11:58 pm by Ricardo – 24 Comments”

The family car on solar power uut Brabant knew a number of big names from Silicon Valley to beat. Nice!

TU Eindhoven again has a reason to be proud of Stella, the little solar car that no more than 400 kg. In the USA, the car namely a Crunchie award. You’re not a nerd? Then we lay for some time: the Crunchies, coined by TechCrunch, are awards for the tech industry. Usually they go to companies in Silicon Valley, but this time it was the Crunchie for Best Technology Achievement’ to the 22 students from Eindhoven.

They competed against Apple, which was nominated for a payment system, Apple Pay, and the herlanceringsprincipe of Elon Musks rakettenbedrijf SpaceX.

Team manager Lex Hoefsloot against the ANP:

“You’re hoping there’s always on, but if I’m honest I had not expected. We stood in a row between all the big names. It shows that they are also in the US think that this is the future.”

Well, for nerdauto’s walk, they do get hot in the valley.

The Stella is a remarkably low car with space for four, a trunk, intuitive steering and a range of 600 kilometers. The Solar Team Eindhoven has the car built from aluminum and carbon fiber which makes the car weight does not exceed the 380 pounds of true. 60 kg of which is for the battery pack that has a capacity of 6 kWh. The rest of the motive power is derived from solar energy. On the roof of 4.5 metres long and 1.65 metres wide Stella its high-efficiency silicon solar panels, which for nearly half of the required energy. In theory the car would be more energy effective than he consumes. However, it is not so that he can doorkachelen, the car has a maximum range of 600 km. It was in any case enough to the competition during the World Solar Challenge 2013 to win the world title address.

This morning at 06:00 hours Dutch time the team took the prize.

Gallery: TU Eindhoven Family car on solar energy

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