While our students here in Nigeria are busy dancing shaku shaku, following up BBNaija and so many unfruitful ventures, their counterparts around the world are making a great impact to make the world a better to live.

Emerging from the prototype vehicles lab (otherwise known as PROVE Lab) at California Polytechnic state university, a group of students has created the first vehicle designed only to break the solar-powered land speed record. the solar car is named ‘dawn’ and is designed to reach 65mph without any battery.

The vehicle, which is the result of two and half years of work, was designed using hundreds of hours of simulation, with some wind tunnel testing for the aerodynamics. The entire vehicle produces only a few kg of aerodynamic drag and is powered entirely by a 2kW solar array, which means there are no batteries used in the car unlike other solar cars designed for races across America or Australia.

The vehicle has no steering wheel, and getting in and out of the car involves the top half pitching up and forward, like the hatch to a science-fiction creation. The team chose 605 individual SunPower solar cells to create their array – The same that were used to fly the solar impulse II aircraft around the world. these are similar to the kind that is often seen on rooftops around the world and are fairly inexpensive technology in 2018.

Every part of the car was designed and built by students including the software. Most of the car’s construction is aerospace-grade carbon fiber, meaning that even with a driver the vehicle weighs less than 200kg in total, allowing it to rest on high-performance bicycle wheels rather than conventional vehicle tires which would produce more resistance. a special flap on the upper surface (hidden by solar cells) will deploy if a sensor detects the car is starting to take off the ground at speed and will kill the lift to keep the car on the ground and the driver safe.


Source:
https://www.autoreportng.com/2018/04/this-solar-powered-car-built-by.html


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Seun
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Mynd44

Whats your take on this?

More pictures here

https://www.autoreportng.com/2018/04/this-solar-powered-car-built-by.html

Me tio

GAZZUZZ:
waiting to see the pics o!

Fixed!!!

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Nice One. Would Not Mind Having This Type In Nigeria...

DuruCrusher:
I no like am joor


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To your question, yes

The late Maryam Babangida

ok

poo cant be used in 9ja..so i don't like it

Aldebaran:

To your question, yes

The late Maryam Babangida

I'm sure that happened before the guy was born, so..... He may be correct in his experience.

I don't even understand this car sef

Nice development.

DuruCrusher:
I no like am joor







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No no no no Since I was born I have never seen president's wife pregnant

"The vehicle has no steering wheel"? Goodluck to those that will ride in it, not me.

OP, did you notice the number of sponsors on the body of the car? Nigerian students can do more but the only thing our people here sponsor is Big Brother, Beauty contest, who dance pass etc. when you (Govt and Private companies) don't promote education, we raise nonentities and mediocre. Our people need sponsors

Lol ... Nice One

It sleek n futuristic...

What can blacks be compared with d white with

Onechancearmy:


Well, if they can modify the chassis and bodywork of the car to make it more practical and ergonomic for the average driver who just wants to drive his kids to school and perform normal everyday tasks with his car, then I can see it having a huge impact on the auto market.

My only worry is that the manufacturers of cars that run on fossil fuels will try all kinds of underhand schemes to sabotage this idea because it will destroy their profits.

Well said, I agree with you, but we can't because of excuses and fear of saboteurs deter us from doing anything, at least let's start something...

Great work

Nice but we need more images because I don't understand what's happening here

Na buhari cause d youth dey jobless oooooo

there is nothing new and special this car.

I thought o saw CALPOLY,calabar poly

Am I the only one not seeing any car here?
Looks like a giant skateboard

our useless Nigerian engineers will not see this one to do....... all they know is how to fight doctors.